Drifting down 'stream' through the Colorado Rockies a 17 car Union Pacific executive special is led by a pair of 'heavies', representing both EMD and GE, near Burns, CO on the Dotsero Cutoff. This... (more)

Bathed in late afternoon sun light the vibrant hills of southern California's San Timoteo Canyon are alive with the sound of whining dynamics and squealing wheels as a westbound Z train emerges fr... (more)

Code-lines and thoroughbreds………illuminated by the morning sun a westbound Union Pacific 'baretable' emerges from the west portal of tunnel #1, just east of Caliente, led by a pair of Norfolk... (more)

Approaching Cable a westbound BNSF double stack threads through the four tunnels in the Tehachapi Creek Narrows on their journey up Tehachapi's western slope. From left to right are tunnels 17, 16... (more)

As waves off San Pablo Bay gently crash into the shore a westbound Amtrak Capitol Corridor service, train 745, hustles into Rodeo on its journey from California's State Capitol to San Jose, CA.

Weaving through the golden Cuesta Hills three big road motors contend with gravity as they lift the westbound 'oil cans' up Cuesta grade on California's Central Coast. Cuesta has always been the m... (more)

Union Pacific's eastbound empty Trona coal buckets roll through Nebo (West Daggett) on BNSF's Needles Subdivision with a clean UP 1996 (Southern Pacific heritage) as its lead motor. The train, exe... (more)

Having left Union Pacific's Nevada Subdivision at Hazen UP's Mina Local begins its journey down the Mina Branch towards Wabuska, NV. Leaving town the local rattles the switch to the Fallon Branch.... (more)

A quiet Sunday afternoon in Bakersfield, CA finds San Joaquin Valley Railroad power tied down at Gomez at the west end of BNSF's Bakersfield yard. For BNSF however there is work to be done as a pa... (more)

Leaving the wide open and sand swept desert at Basin, CA the rails of Union Pacific's Cima Subdivision come to ride along the northern bank of the Mojave River Wash as the two snake through the co... (more)

With the rear of their train still in Nebraska westbound double stacks march into Pine Bluffs, WY with rebuilt SD9043MAC 3666 on the point, a UP SD70M and a pair of 'thoroughbreds' round out the c... (more)

C&NW in Espee country……Former Chicago & Northwestern AC4400 8806, now Union Pacific's 6708, leads the charge on UP's hotshot 'Lathrop Z' as it hustles across the high desert south of Rosamond.... (more)

Amtrak 'pointless arrow' heritage motor #156 has command of a 4 car Amtrak executive special which among other Amtrak and BNSF executives onboard is Amtrak's outgoing CEO Joe Boardman. The special... (more)

With California's Coastline and the deep blue vistas of the Pacific bathed in late afternoon sun, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 777 hustles across Gaviota Trestle en route to San Luis Obispo. This trac... (more)

With the thick marine layer still shrouding Chorro and the San Luis Obispo Valley UP 7619 peaks around the curve leading to the 'little horseshoe', catching the first rays of the morning.