With its morning trip home almost complete, UP's LRR65 drops downgrade past the Thermalito Diversion Dam and Powerplant as it passes some fall foliage while skirting the Feather River just east of... (more)

It's a beautiful, fall day in the northern half of the Central Valley as UP 8754 leads its train off the Canyon Subdivision and onto the Valley Subdivision as it enters the town of Marysville at s... (more)

A stark contrast from the snowy, wind-swept images we've seen of 4014 on it's final days of running in 2019 - its hard to think it was only a little more than a month ago that the massive 4-8-8-4 ... (more)

Still Not As Busy As The WP. The yard at Oroville is bustling with activity this afternoon as two...count um...TWO trains are in the yard at the same time! A far cry from the days of the We... (more)

Modesto might not seem very scenic, but it can certainly be a colorful station stop for Amtrak's San Joaquin's if one times it right. Take for example the changing, fall colors of the trees in the... (more)

4449 on the Transcon. While it might carry the colors of black and orange, this 4449 certainly isn't the gleaming 4-8-4 we all known and love. On this warm, summer afternoon in Valentine, A... (more)

Fall Colors and a Northern. Frozen in time at the Modesto Amtrak station, ATSF 2921's black paint makes a stark contrast when framed against the changing, fall colors of the trees in the b... (more)

Metrolink 106 highballs Oxnard and briefly reflects in a large puddle leftover from a recent rain squall as the short passenger train, laden with commuters traveling into Los Angeles, gains speed ... (more)

One Last Kiss. Illuminated by a dim platform light, a couple is about to embrace one another for one last kiss prior to the gentleman helping his lady up the final steps of the vestibule an... (more)

With it's final trip over Cajon Pass almost complete, UP 4014 and it's pair of diesel helpers ease their 23-car passenger train downgrade into Devore as they head for the train's final destination... (more)

Union Pacific's "Big Boy" steam locomotive, No. 4014, gets the chance to stretch its legs on the winding desert floor as it passes through the community of Hodge. The original AT&SF righ... (more)

UP 4014 prepares to leave home rails once again and enter BNSF's Transcon route as it leans into the curve at Daggett.

Breathing Fire. UP 4014, the largest operating steam locomotive in the world, is truly an awe inspiring sight even just building steam pressure in the early morning light. As the sun has ju... (more)

Can I get a light? The crew of the UP 9000 peers below as a gathering of military and civilian personnel converse as they wait for their passenger train to points east to back into the depo... (more)

Thanksgiving travelers eager to get to their holiday destination points get a brief chance to take in Camarillo, Calif., as a trusty F59PHI's dynamic brakes work to slow the train for its next sch... (more)