The Big Boy begins to depart the depot at Gurdon, and puts out an impressive plume of smoke.

The Big Boy races around a curve as it crosses the State Road 35 crossing. Two eastbound trains delayed the Big Boy in departing Prescott, so engineer Ed Dickens opened her up to make up some tim... (more)

The beast emerges from a cloud of steam and smoke as the Big Boy departs Prescott, Arkansas on a 20 degree morning. It may of been cold, but it sure helped to highlight the steam.

The UP 4014 steam crew, having fixed a stuck bell on the locomotive, check other components as morning breaks over Prescott, Arkansas.

UP 3367 leads a doublestack train westbound off of Cajon Pass and into the San Bernardino yard. Included in the consist are two CNW units.

It is another smoggy day in the Los Angeles basin as SP 8732 leads an eastbound manifest train through the many reverse curves located in San Timoteo Canyon on Banning Pass. Note the hobo riding ... (more)

SP 8732 leads an eastbound manifest train out of the smog filled Los Angeles basin and into the mouth of the San Timoteo Canyon.

The engineer on the SP 9217 slowly begins to bring his train eastward out of the West Colton yard, and then head west up the Palmdale Cutoff over Cajon Pass.

UP 1227 sits next to four Southern Pacific rotaries in the Roseville yard.

SP 4449 blasts through the City of Industry with the eastbound Louisiana World's Fair Daylight destined for New Orleans.

Santa Fe's classic signals stand guard at the west Summit on Cajon Pass.

Today at Cajon Summit, with the addition of the third BNSF track, it is much easier to see three trains passing each other at the same time, but back in 1982 it was much more difficult. Here UP 3... (more)

13 locomotives, led by UP 7885, roll westbound into the West Colton yard after coming over Banning Pass. No train, just a long string of 13 engines.

SP 8236 and SP 8249 are part of five units up front as they thunder past with the eastbound Southern Pacific Oil Can train. In the distance, a Santa Fe intermodal is approaching. By the time the ... (more)

SP 9177 leads Milwaukee Road 156, 174 and 168 up Cajon Pass. Seeing three Milwaukee Road engines on a single train was rather rare in SoCal, so we ended up chasing this power consist all day.