Late in the day, a Z train out of Chicago hustles along the Palisades on its way to the Pacific Northwest.

A hot 199 train kicks up dusk as it hustles through the San Joaquin Delta at 70 mph.

With the late afternoon sun blazing at the south end of the San Joaquin Valley, a Santa Fe eastbound attacks Tehachapi's western slope with the sun's rays glinting off its sides.

A hot eastbound pig train hustles over the hogback at Seligman as a manifest waits in the yard to depart.

Southbound D&H freight passes over Tunkhannock Viaduct with NYS&W motive power during the D&H era when Guilford had pulled out and before CP took over the railroad. Scene is from adjacent US Rout... (more)

Local train A700 splits the signals at WA Wye as it prepares to depart the W&A subdivision main line and roll into the yard at Cartersville.

A Conrail B40-8 leads a short freight west near Danville.

A rather worn ex-Conrail B40-8 leads the track geometry train north thru Homestead.

Starrucca Viaduct, built by the Erie in 1848 still carries trains over its massive stone structure. View is taken from an old stone quarry high above the valley, the same quarry that rock for the... (more)

This Chicago, IL, to Kansas City, MO, manifest train blast west out of Galesburg, near GI. Consist started getting interesting in 1995 after the BNSF merger, as seen here with the B40, B30-7B, and... (more)

A pair of B40-8s bracket a D&H GP39-2 on an eastbound stack train. The lead Dash 8 is one of 20 financed by CSX during the period when Susquehanna was the designated operator of the bankrupt Dela... (more)

UP power leads an eastbound NS onto New Albanys floodwall.

Local power from A748 and A742 in the form of a B40-8, GP40-2 and GP38-2 rest after the days work and are seen standing in Fairburn Ga. at 17:20 while awaiting their next local assighments.

My first SP/SWW train.For this easterner this was my first visit to southern California having arrived the day before.Staying in Palm Springs,I know who visits the desert in July? Well I did.Anyw... (more)