A peaceful day along the shores of the San Pablo Bay gets broken as Union Pacific 8602 comes grinding through Pinole, California, with a long stack train in tow. A large portion of the UP Martinez... (more)

NS I-modal had an interesting leader form "out West", UP's commemorative SP locomotive, UP 1996. Here is UP 1996 with NS 22Z in the curve.

With the Sandhills as a background, BNSF 5729 pulls an empty hopper around one of the many curves toward Alliance.

BNSF 7295 leads a loaded grain train at Sandcut under cloudy skies.

BNSF 5490 climbs through Woodford.

S-TACCHI

Union Pacific's Southern Pacific Heritage SD70ACe #1996 leads Long Beach,CA - Atlanta,GA intermodal train 22Z on the west end of Tallapoosa.

Union Pacific's "Southern Pacific" heritage unit leads its first transcontinental stack train from Los Angeles to Atlanta, along the Norfolk Southern main through Alabama. After a crew change in ... (more)

Santa Fe SD40-2 No. 5192 leads an eastbound freight over the Colorado River Bridge at Topock, Arizona, on March 7, 1996. Trailing is another SD40-2 (5164), a former Amtrak SDP40F now labeled a SDF... (more)

UP 844 meets it first train at Vernon as the 2 DPU motors pass by my location.

A pair of warbonnets lead this Chicago, IL to Houston, TX Q train out of Emporia and into the setting sun. In 2012 a solid set of warbonnets on the point of any train on the BNSF is a very rare ev... (more)

Will County loads cruise through Joliet with quite the interesting UP AC on the point.

CSX SD60I 8732 leads IHBGAL west through Lockport.

The wind power movement is growing rapidly in the Mojave, so scenes like this might become more common across Southern California.