A Santa Fe 189 train roars up the 1.0 percent grade in Franklin Canyon. The westbound has just pierced tunnel 1 and 2, and is now headed for tunnel 3, the longest bore on the entire system.

BNSF ES44C4 6948 flies off of Main #1 at Martinez passing a tied down vehicle train.

Hotshot Los Angles, CA - Chicago, IL intermodal skips around a parked San Diego, CA - Barstow, CA vehicle train.

In what appears to be a power move, F45 No. 5936 leads an eastbound manifest through the sweeping curve at Martinez on the eastern slope of Cajon Pass.

Late on a beautiful afternoon, Santa Fe 7427 West attacks the 1.0 percent grade of Vine Hill in Martinez, CA. The train is climbing to Franklin Canyon and the summit in tunnel 3.

Four UP SD45s roll an empty Kaiser Steel coal train eastward at Martinez on Cajon Pass. The train of high-sided coal hoppers is headed back to the loadout in Utah for another load. The tall and ab... (more)

With 4-axle power assigned in Bakersfield, a westbound pig train starts the long climb to the summit of Franklin Canyon at Maltby. The big oil storage tanks in the distance belong to Getty Oil.

On a beautiful clear morning in the spring of 1974, a pair of Centennials hustles an eastbound UP pig train off the eastern slope of Cajon Pass.

On a beautiful day in December 1988, a Santa Fe 189 train roars uphill through a curve on Vine Hill as it ascends the 1.0 percent grade to Franklin Canyon. This is Santa Fe's crossing of Californi... (more)

In June 1984, with the shadows in the Alhambra Valley getting longer and longer, six 4-axle EMDs lead a westbound Santa Fe pig across Muir Trestle in Martinez, CA. In a month or so, Santa Fe will ... (more)

Late in the day, ATSF B23-7 No. 6410 leads a 199 up the 1.0 percent grade of Vine Hill. At one time, Vine Hill was the name of a siding the railroad had at this location. The plentiful exhaust is ... (more)

A late running Coast Starlight coming off the Suisun Bay Bridge into Martinez, CA on the way to LA.

On a hot afternoon in June 1973, Santa Fe 8712 West passes a classic signal bridge that's lost it's target signal. At this time the railroad was cutting down its signal bridges and replacing them ... (more)

As shadows start to get long in the Alhambra Valley, a westbound BNSF hot-shot crosses the Muir Trestle with three ex-Santa Fe warbonnets in the lead. In the distance at left is 3700-foot Mt. Diab... (more)

Although we were hoping for a warbonnet on the point of the 199 train in Franklin Canyon, a freshly-painted F45 was okay.