With the sun about to slip below the skyline the sky glows with the last rays of sunlight as the classic old SP cantilever signal bridge carries on its duties protecting the Sandcut cross-over. On... (more)

The busy hustle and bustle of city life in Covina, CA pauses for just a few brief moments as Santa Fe 3751 storms into town with a passenger special bound for San Bernardino, CA. The 1927 Baldwin ... (more)

The peaceful calm of a spring morning in the Tehachapi pass is shattered by four hard working GE motors as they do battle with the stiff grades and seemingly endless number of curves that rule the... (more)

#5000. UP 7964, the 5000th Evolution series diesel produced by General Electric, heels to the Caliente horseshoe as it begins the most daunting portion of its eastward climb having already negotia... (more)

Wes Pac vs. the Cajon grade..... UP 1983 adorned in heritage colors of the Western Pacific railroad is the lead motor on UP's eastbound MWCNP-15 (West Colton, CA to North Platte, NE; manifest). Th... (more)

The quite and peaceful still of the Feather River canyon is broken by the rumble of a pair of spotless SD59MX motors as they make their way for Portola just west of Two Rivers. After these rebuilt... (more)

With the dynamic brakes howling, UP 1995 and 8714 (rear DPU out of view) ease a lengthy ILBOA-29 into Caliente. UP 1995 has just passed through "downtown" Caliente and is heading for the Caliente ... (more)

C&NW invades Donner! UP 1995 (CNW heritage) brings its colorful green and yellow livery to the beautiful Truckee river canyon east of Truckee, CA. UP 1995 is joined by a pair of GE motors on the p... (more)

Four C44-9W's ease a westbound intermodal train down the western slope of the famed Tehachapi pass east of Bealville. 5004 is nearing the east portal of tunnel 3 and passing the former site of tun... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific SD60M's team with SD70ACe 8326 to bring the RSTMJC-22 over the Tehachapi's. This cement train which carries product out of the Monolith and Oak Creek cement plants runs a f... (more)

Santa Fe Steam returns to the Needles District. 3751 rumbles along BNSF's Needles Subdivision west of Ludlow, CA as she makes her way back home to Los Angeles. 3751 has just spent a few days at th... (more)

Brand new ES44C4 BNSF 7004 works up the eastern slope of Ash Hill on the point of the westbound Q CHILAC6-17K. Another freshly delievered C4, BNSF 6983 is 4th back. Klondike is located on main 1 o... (more)

BNSF 5273 works up the western slope of the Tehachapi Pass between tunnels 1 & 2. Trailing behind the 5273 is SD70MAC 8976, ES44AC 6128, & GP60 8702 (ex ATSF 4002).

Afternoon sun shines on the UP 7501 as it tops Ansel hill on the point of the WRVAMT, a tie train running from Roseville, CA to Amarillo, TX.

A trio of Union Pacific SD70Ms top the Tehachapi pass on the point of the ZBRLC. The "Brooklyn" is beginning its down grade run to Mojave and passing MP 364 & the MP 363.8 searchlight just west of... (more)