Inclement months on the Sierra present many operating challenges and while modern machines and technology have streamlined certain operations in the face of winter's worst intentions, these months... (more)

With its crossing of the Sierra Nevada nearly complete Amtrak 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, slips down grade into Truckee, where it will make its final California stop before crossing into N... (more)

In the glow of late afternoon sunlight a mix of screaming 'horses' and whinning dynamics highlight railroading in the Tehachapi's as a pair of 'Roseville' trains take center stage near MP 377.

As the sun rises above the mountain tops its warm glow begins to reunite with the eastern slope of Union Pacific's fabled crossing of the Tehachapi mountains in southern California. Against the hu... (more)

After cutting through the build up of several winter storms the UP snow fighters have returned the movement of revenue trains through the snow belt. The spreaders worked in tandem down to Shed 10 ... (more)

Squealing flanges and the roar of dynamic brakes disrupt the quiet calm of a winter's morning on the eastern slope of Donner Pass. Running on what was once the #2 track, a pair of older UP AC4400s... (more)

From the dawn of the diesel era to the early 1990s EMD was king on Southern Pacific's Sierra Crossing between Roseville, CA and Sparks, NV. By the mid-90s new Southern Pacific General Electric AC4... (more)

Benefitting from the efforts of Union Pacific's snow fighters, who had just carved a path through the snow belt, Amtrak 5 carefully slips down the western slope of the Sierra at Troy.

Continuing in traditions initiated over the decades by the Central Pacific and later Southern Pacific, snow fighting is simply a way of life during inclement months on the Roseville Subdivision. F... (more)

With the Sierra Nevada firmly gripped by a winter snow storm mainline operations must continue on Union Pacific's Sierra crossing. Employing snow fighting methods perfected over time every signifi... (more)

As this is posted the Southern Pacific has been a part of the Union Pacific for over 18 years, however the once familiar scarlet and grey livery of the once mighty SP can still be found being put ... (more)

It's not to hard to imagine how Southern Pacific came up with the station name of 'Cliff' for a isolated near 3 mile section of their famed line over Tehachapi Pass. Just east of Cliff siding and ... (more)

With the desolate and vast wide open vistas of the Mojave Desert forming the backdrop a classic old US&S searchlight signal stands guard at the west end of Basin, CA where Union Pacific's Cima Sub... (more)

Looking right at home under the Southern California sunshine, Norfolk Southern's 'Savanna & Atlanta' heritage painted SD70ACe drifts across the 984 foot long bridge over the Santa Ana River near A... (more)

Harkening back to the days when the California Zephyr plied the rails of Western Pacific's 3rd Subdivision, the westbound Feather River Express rolls across Clio Trestle with former California Zep... (more)