Semaphores, code-lines, and the Chief...Not to much has changed at Chapelle, New Mexico over the decades. Sure the fabled 'Route of the Chiefs' is now owned by BNSF and the last Chief standing is ... (more)

Still dressed in its sharp warbonnet livery BNSF SD75M 8249 finds work as the rear dupe on this eastbound manifest dropping into Mojave. The venerable old Santa Fe motor is passing under the once ... (more)

Not Sacramento built. On a beautiful September day Union Pacific FEF-3 #844 basks in the morning sun in front of the old Southern Pacific General Shops. Countless steam locomotives passed through ... (more)

Late afternoon finds a westbound grain train struggling up Peru Hill behind a trio of older Union Pacific GE ACs. In the background are the beautiful rock spires characteristic of Green River, WY.... (more)

Hustling west towards San Luis Obispo Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 761 passes the junction with the Lompoc Branch at Surf, CA on the former Southern Pacific Coast Line. Bringing up the rear is Amtrak'... (more)

Winter's Professionals prevail. One year ago snow accumulations on California's Sierra Nevada was pushing record numbers, a welcome relief from a handful of well below average years of drought thr... (more)

Inspecting 'Walonger'. On leap year day 2016 a three car Union Pacific inspection special climbs the Tehachapi grade just below Marcel, giving officials on board a close-up view of the progress be... (more)

With the San Gabriel Mountains looming large in the background eastbound Union Pacific tonnage eases down the Cajon grade at Lugo behind a solid consist of EMDs.

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)