The third trip of the day heads out to Railroad Pass.

An eastbound manifest on the Modoc Line reverses direction at Likely Loop. The train is just starting the climb to the summit at Sage Hen, twelve miles and 880 feet of elevation distant.

UP 8477 is leading a mixed freight train through Truckee.

UP 5383 is leading a westbound intermodal train over Donner Pass.

UP runs through the horseshoe curve near Caliente toward Tehachapi.

UP 8717 is leading an eastbound intermodal train down Donner Pass.

Sunset on the Santa Barbara Subdivision at Seacliff. The southbound Guadalupe Local with ES44AC no. 7999 doing the honors as it rolls along the Ventura Coastline.

One of the trains detoured on the Modoc Line due to flood damage in the Sacramento River Canyon descends the grade between Sage Hen and Likely, California. In less than six months, this trackage w... (more)

Two rebuilt SD45s shove hard on the rear of an eastbound lumber drag at Woodford.

An eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line descends Viewland Hill into the Honey Lake Valley. The train will stop for a crew change at Wendel in less than ten minutes.

National Railway Equipment built a whopping total of one GS14B "Truck Engine Switcher" (TES), Union Pacific Y2005 (numbered for the year is was built), powered by a pair of Cummins 700hp... (more)

The northbound Guadalupe Local with Union Pacific AC4400CW No. 7066 leading, rolls through the signals at Hobson Road in the Faria Beach Colony

UP 8425 is leading a westbound intermodal train over Donner Pass.

UP 3721 and UP 3808 help a westbound grain train down the hill in Cajon Pass.

Union Pacific SD40-2 3462, with interestingly mis-matched numberboards, is teamed with a former Southern Pacific SD40T-2 and another SD40-2 to bring a local, train LRS97-12, into Stockton from Ros... (more)