On a slow evening in West Colton, UP 1571, leading a yard job, pauses before receiving permission to continue out of the yard.

A fine quartet of standard cab EMDs pull Southern Pacific's RVKCM through the center siding at Gilluly on Aug. 24, 1996.

UP 2712 leads a SD40T-2 and a long freight from Fresno, including a large cut of empty Canadian grain cars, northbound through Ripon in the afternoon.

Southern Pacific's EUCHQ cruises east through Murray Sampler while Salt Lake City Southern GP38 No. 5556 awaits a call in the old Union Pacific Pallas Yard on July 25, 1996.

An SP SD40R, an SP GP40-2 and a D&RGW GP40 lead a 41 car KCOAF through Spanish Fork Canyon on February 5, 1995.

Union Pacific’s Potash Turn heads north past unique red rock formations into Bootlegger Canyon on the afternoon of May 12, 2006. This train normally operates in the morning, so this late afterno... (more)

After waiting on NS to give the Alabama & Tennessee River Railroad (ATN) local Z389-21 a clear board to cross the diamond at 32nd St., the ATN local is underway heading back to Gadsden, Ala from C... (more)

Four big EMDs (including a Rio Grande SD45) pull a Roseville to Alton & Southern (Kansas City) mixed freight through Riverton the evening of June 19, 1994.

Not long after A&C aquired four big six axle rebuilds a pair was leading short BNSF eastbound interchange train 807 near the lonely outpost of Milligan, site of an old salt plant now abandoned acc... (more)

Under a deep blue sky, SP's Roseville to Alton & Southern (St. Louis) Q-train ascends the Mapleton Bench on June 26, 1994. The SP 7321 was built by EMD as SP SD40 No. 8415 in Feb. 1966.

SP in SC! After a little over a week of catching fallen flag units leading various trains around the area it was finally my turn to get in on the behind the scenes action as I was the condu... (more)

A former SP EMD surprised many today when it showed up leading K457. This unit had hung around the south for quite some time earlier in the year, and evidently has returned to give those who didn'... (more)

Far away from it's once common stomping grounds of the Sierra Nevada's, this ex Southern Pacific SD40R still looks good working through the hills of north Georgia.

An ex Southern Pacific SD40R leads CSX ethanol train K457-19 (Decatur,IL - Pelzer,SC) through the S curve in downtown Acworth on a beautiful but hot summer morning.