UP's United Way locomotive, SD40-2 No. 3300, idles on the point of an STEK (Stockton, CA to Elko Nevada manifest) in the yard at Portola, CA. It's the 4th of July, and Portola's Railroad Museum ha... (more)

BN 5762 North, a WP freight with BN pool power, roars through Greenville, CA, on the High Line headed for the Pacific Northwest. BN will symbol this freight as 138.

Just as the sun clears the horizon to the southeast, Santa Fe 5019 East roars through Essex, CA, with five EMDs for power. The manifest is climbing the western slope of Goffs Hill. A few minutes b... (more)

Late in the day, big C40-8W No. 838 leads a heavy coiled steel train past the small yard at East Antioch. The train is headed to USS-POSCO Steel in nearby Pittsburg.

A BNSF hot-shot heads east along the stratified sandstone bluffs at Mesita, NM. Directly below us is old Route 66.

As morning pushes toward midday, Amtrak No. 5, the San Francisco Zephyr, eases into Colfax, preparing to stop for passengers at the depot in this small town at 2,500 foot of elevation in the Sier... (more)

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)

At dusk on a night after a soaking rain shrouded the Upper Mississippi River at Savanna, IL, a heavy coal train makes it way east on the drenched Aurora Sub.

On the double track west of Savanna, IL, BNSF 4127 West meets a Z train bound for Chicago. To the right are the Mississippi Palisades.

Four beautiful Fairbanks-Morse diesel locomotives sit on the roundhouse tracks at SP's very active roundhouse in Bayshore, CA. The Bayshore facility, now just a distant memory, sat astride SP's Pe... (more)

Santa Fe 5832 West, a hot 199 train, roars through a super-elevated curve at Glen Frazer as it fights a 1.0 percent grade. The high-priority pig train is moments away from entering tunnel 3, insid... (more)

In heavy, bone-chilling fog, a Santa Fe eastbound with a U36C on the point makes its way up hill at Cable Crossover, a little west of the town of Tehachapi.

Santa Fe 8011 East makes its way upgrade between Seligman and Crookton as it climbs the west side of the Arizona Divide.

As the bay window caboose of an eastbound SP passes us, we can see SP light power approaching in the distance.

EMD SD40-2 No. 3089 and a DD35A pull a short southbound manifest through Longview, WA.