Rolling toward Los Angeles is a Union Pacific double-stack train being pulled by UP Dash 8-40C 9129, teamed with a pair of SD60s and two more Dash 9-40Cs. (Ontario, California – March 1988)

A short Guadalupe local rolls down the Santa Barbara Subdivision to Gemco yard in Los Angeles. New paving and new painted spaces for Rv parking along the ocean at the Rincon are underway for th... (more)

A Fort Worth to West Colton manifest is led by a freshly rebuilt DC to AC UP GE.

The morning sun slowly peaks the hills of Allard, burning off a fog layer, as a south bound Union Pacific intermodal from Brooklyn, Oregon, climbs the grade around the horseshoe, in and out of the... (more)

Nearing the summit of Beaumont Hill, a Forth Worth to West Colton manifest is knuckles down, screaming for air, as it grinds through Banning with Little San Gorgonio Mountain in the background.

A westbound freight is shaking the ground as it roars eastbound. Looks that that second unit was in the wrong place and the wrong time some time ago. It's April and the chill precludes Blue Cut'... (more)

Northbound Union Pacific AC4400CW no 6612 leads a northbound Guadalupe Local through Faria Beach into the setting sun.

Late in the afternoon, Union Pacific train LOG16R 14, technically the 7400 Zone Switcher out of Mead, but popularly called the Vopak Switcher, navigates the S-curve at the north end ... (more)

Switching cars at Union Pacific's Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF), in Long Beach adjacent to their Dolores Yard, are UP SD40M-2 2664 (for all intents and purposes and SD45) and an SD... (more)

Meandering one of many "S" curves of Donner Pass, former SP 119 now UP 6223 lead an eastbound autorack train up the West Slope.

Night operations on the Tehachapi Pass is a completely different world. Here a north bound manifest quickly drifts down the grade between tunnels 1 and 2 as the headlights light the right of way t... (more)

Clinging to the side of the hill, alongside Highway 58 in the upper Tehachapi mountains, a morning south bound Union Pacific intermodal battles up the steep grade and through tunnel 14 as the morn... (more)

High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)

In 1987-1988, Southern Pacific closed the Modoc Line to through traffic. If the Modoc had been open, this EURGM would have been closing in on Alturas. Instead, the train is crossing Dry Canyon Via... (more)

2 units lead an eastbound Herzog train for another load at Mudrock, UT.