All is quiet the early morning after Christmas in Sanford. Note the two different lettering styles for the number boards.

UP 3557, SSW 9398, SP 9246 and SP 8710 go over the top of their train on Tehachapi Loop. The four unit helper set has just cleared tunnel 9, and the sound of 7 EMDs and 1 GE U-boat in run 8 was a... (more)

An SP manifest grinds up hill in run 8 past the Santa Fe Tunnel 1 on Cajon Pass. The SP and tunnel are now distant memories.

UP 3549 blasts out of Tunnel 1 on Cajon Pass. The tunnel is now gone, and the UP SD40-2s are becoming harder to find.

The NS Geometry train, with FEC 711, NS 2663, NS 3279, NS 38 and a test car, heads north towards Jacksonville as it crosses the Crane Creek Bridge in downtown Melbourne. To see a Norfolk Southern... (more)

There is no telling what you'll see while watching trains. "Super Chicken" on top of one of the signal towers at the summit on Cajon Pass, January, 1986.

The sun has broken through the clouds as two Railrunner passenger trains, with NMRX 105 and NMRX 108, prepare to depart from the Santa Fe Depot.

The westbound California Zephyr is about to enter the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel.

Specially painted kodachrome ATSF 5394, which is sporting white lettering, yellowbonnet ATSF 5400, and kodachrome ATSF 5401 rest in San Bernardino yard. Later in the day, these three locomotives w... (more)

Recently painted ATSF 18 coupled to ATSF 26 at the diesel shops in the Barstow yard.

Santa Fe 3751 is getting closer to being pulled from Viaduct Park in San Bernardino, while another locomotive has arrived on the scene. I do not know much about this steam locomotive, number 42.

Union Pacific helpers UP 3648 and UP 3467 are shoving hard on a westbound coal train at the Frost Crossover on Cajon Pass. Underneath the helpers in the distance is the headend of the train as it ... (more)

The conductor and engineer on the SP 9172 watch as we roll by on the Amtrak - Pacific Railroad Society Mountain Outin Special up Tehachapi Pass. With the re-alignment of the siding, this view of ... (more)

Santa Fe 8730 leads a trio of Chessie and B&O pool power westbound through the San Bernardino yards, while in the distance a westbound Southern Pacific freight is crossing the concrete bridge as i... (more)

The 1979 Pacific Railroad Society "Mountain Outin" passenger special, with Amtrak SDP40F AMTK 518 and AMTK 517, is rolling westbound towards Bakersfield through Cable. I am taking this photo from ... (more)