As the sky begins to grey, foreshadowing an incoming front, on a cool and blustery afternoon in Granger, WY a sliver of sunshine escapes finding a westbound shooter with tier-IV compliant SD70AH 3... (more)

An eastbound BNSF double stack splits the left-over carnage from a recent Union Pacific derailment, just out of the west portal of tunnel 1, as it climbs out of Caliente.

Coming off the 'Jawbone Branch' at the north end of Mojave the eastbound Trona coal buckets 'wrong main' through town towards South Mojave. At South Mojave the buckets will take the old Santa Fe e... (more)

With C&NW 'heritage' yellow and green up front Union Pacific's eastbound 'Brooklyn trailers' drift down grade at Warren, nearly at the end of its crossing of the Tehachapis.

14000 tons of Colorado coal rerouted off the Moffat conforms to the reverse curves between Rock Springs and Chevron on Union Pacific's Rawlins Sub. Bringing up the rear is UP 6367 (ex-SP 321), one... (more)

Leaving Green River, WY a westbound Union Pacific double stack train works up Peru Hill.

A trio of Union Pacific 'ACes' emerge from Cajon's Mormon Rock formations with the eastbound Mojave Flyer. Up front is UP 1989, dressed in Rio Grande heritage colors.

Through the burn zone! A few months after the Blue Cut wildfire devastated nearly 58 square miles of landscape in Southern California's Cajon Pass a westbound BNSF double stack carefully drops dow... (more)

With a colorful consist up front and a threatening sky overhead westbound tonnage departs Green River, passing the old Green River depot.

Under a carefully hand the eastbound Bridger coal train carefully drops down grade into Point of Rocks, WY. At Point of Rocks the empty coal buckets will enter the mainline for the run to the Blac... (more)

Running towards the early morning sun Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr is approaching Rock Springs having passed the old station site of Kanda. A major maintenance of way project on the train'... (more)

Scooting through the remote back hills of New Mexico's San Miguel county Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief, train #3, approaches a set of intermediate blades east of Chapelle, NM.

D&RGW K-37 491 takes a spin on the Colorado Railroad Museum's Armstrong turntable prior to a day of excursions for the Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Historical Society. In the background are the two old... (more)

BNSF's eastbound Provo, UT to Denver, CO trackage rights train emerges from the east portal of famed Moffat Tunnel.

As the sun climbs into the sky, painting Tehachapi's golden hills in warm morning light, a pair of westbounds are caught in its glint. In the lower foreground Union Pacific's MWCRV carefully drift... (more)