With the summit of Raton Pass nearly at hand Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief rounds the famous curve at Wootton.

Five EMD SD70 variants hustle a eastbound 'K' train through the curves at the west end of Point of Rocks. Just below image center is the 'grave of the unknown'. This quiet gravesite is the resting... (more)

The Overland Route & Overland Trail Stage Station. Before the Transcontinental Railroad linked the east with the west stagecoach lines transported both passengers and mail across the country. Stat... (more)

Having spent the morning switching the Swan Ranch Railroad interchange at Speer, WY BNSF's Swan Ranch local returns to town behind a pair of former BN SD40-2s. The train is approaching the old 'C&... (more)

Leaving the open desert east of Yermo the eastbound Trona coal buckets prepare to enter the confines of Afton Canyon, passing the canyon's west entrance on a beautiful December afternoon.

The high and low roads over Newhall Pass. On the low road the eastbound Saugus Local behind a pair of ex-Cotton Belt GP40-2s slip through the curves east of CP Balboa on the old Saugus Line (now M... (more)

On a beautiful spring morning eastbound tonnage comes away from the 'middle' bridge crossing of the Mojave River in the heart of Southern California's Afton Canyon. Just east of the 'middle' river... (more)

A westbound intermodal sails through the heart of the Mojave's 'Grand Canyon'. There are few places in Southern California that are so desolate and ruggedly beautiful as Afton Canyon!

Union Pacific's eastbound Grand Island Hauler pauses for work with the giant Gothenburg, NE grain elevator towering over the scene. The elevator switcher in the background is MJRX SD20 #1021. MJRX... (more)

Painted by the light of a low hanging sun a westbound Union Pacific manifest tops the hill at Percy, WY (west of Hanna) with two generations of EMD road power on the point. UP 3027 a new tier-IV S... (more)

As the sky begins to grey, foreshadowing an incoming front, on a cool and blustery afternoon in Granger, WY a sliver of sunshine escapes finding a westbound shooter with tier-IV compliant SD70AH 3... (more)

An eastbound BNSF double stack splits the left-over carnage from a recent Union Pacific derailment, just out of the west portal of tunnel 1, as it climbs out of Caliente.

Coming off the 'Jawbone Branch' at the north end of Mojave the eastbound Trona coal buckets 'wrong main' through town towards South Mojave. At South Mojave the buckets will take the old Santa Fe e... (more)

With C&NW 'heritage' yellow and green up front Union Pacific's eastbound 'Brooklyn trailers' drift down grade at Warren, nearly at the end of its crossing of the Tehachapis.

14000 tons of Colorado coal rerouted off the Moffat conforms to the reverse curves between Rock Springs and Chevron on Union Pacific's Rawlins Sub. Bringing up the rear is UP 6367 (ex-SP 321), one... (more)