Southern Pacific's Huntington Beach local passes through Garden Grove, California, with a trainload of lumber on June 5, 1986.

The ground vibrates as three big EMD 6-motor diesels hustle through Martinez, California, in preparation of crossing the Benicia–Martinez Bridge on their way east.

Following a crew change, an eastbound Burlington Northern freight accelerates on BN’s Lincoln Sub. BN SD40-2 8121 leads sister SD40-2 6355 and a pair of cabless B30-7A diesels. (McCook, Nebras... (more)

A Santa Fe train passes the station sign for May, in Riverside, California, on October 2, 1986. The lead locomotive is an SF30C, which is what the Santa Fe named their rebuilt U36Cs.

In the 1980s, EMD's SD40-2 was king on the Union Pacific! Here we see a pair, with a GE B30-7 in between, hustle a manifest eastbound through Gothenburg, Nebraska, in August 1988. Gothenburg was... (more)

Not long after motorcar The Skunk departed for Willits, eager passengers watch as the next train, the diesel powered The Super Skunk, positions itself for loading. Today's train is ... (more)

California Western's The Skunk departs Fort Bragg, California, on its eastbound trip to Willits on July 5, 1976. Motorcar M-300 was built by AC&F.

Santa Fe SD40-2 5114 leads a mixed quartet of power (SD45-2, SD26 and U36C) through Walong ... perhaps better known as the Tehachapi Loop! Just beyond the right edge of the photo, under the piggy... (more)

At Bealville, California, a nice, ecclectic mix of motive power (SD40-2, SD45-2, SD26 and U36C) grind upgrade with an eastbound freight. This train will soon be winding around the Tehachapi Loop ... (more)

Power short in the late '70s, the Santa Fe leased some GPs from the Chessie System, as can be seen by the two GP40s trailing ATSF SD40 5004. To avoid numbering confusion, a 9 was placed over the ... (more)

Skirting the San Francisco Bay, leased Amtrak P30CH 720 takes a pair of gallery cars from San Francisco to San Jose. This Southern Pacific commuter train is at South San Francisco, California on ... (more)

A Metro Rail Gold Line train accelerates out of the Pico/Aliso station in East Los Angeles as it heads east to the Atlantic (Boulevard) Station. The Siemens P2000 light rail car is about the ente... (more)

A potash train sits in Mojave, Califorina, after arriving from Trona, awaiting a fresh crew. SD70ACe 8314 is on the point this day.

Eastbound double Joe with dead boxcabs in tow crosses the Clark Fork River and BN's former NP Main. The BN station is visible on the right

A solid set of sequentially numbered SP GP40-2s (7661, 7660, 7659, 7658) makes a set-out at the summit of Beaumont Hill at Beaumont, CA. Ten months after delivery, these four are still together in... (more)