A clear winter morning in the desert finds a heavy BNSF westbound with mix of doublestack containers and trailers stretched out on the big curve at Klondike on the former ATSF Needles District.

With its cars for the Union Pacific now uncoupled and set out at the Searles interchange, power for the local freight from Trona prepares to head light back up the branch to its namesake and tie u... (more)

At the former location of the Saugus wye, Union Pacific's hottest train on the I-5 corridor inbound from Portland, Oregon is passing through the town of Saugus and toward its final destination at ... (more)

Out in the Searles Valley, Trona Railway power is returning to homebase from the Searles interchange with Union Pacific.

On a clear winter morning in the Santa Clarita Valley, the Los Angeles to Seattle intermodal makes good time as it climbs into Soledad Canyon on the former SP Saugus Line.

Changing crews at Albuquerque on the Railrunner Express just in from Santa Fe.

Northbound Amtrak train #14 makes good time on its central valley detour as it passes through Warren, situated roughly halfway between Mojave and Cameron at the eastern foot of the Tehachapi mount... (more)

Near the Colorado River crossing on BNSF's Seligman Sub, an eastbound general merchandise freight approaches Topock as it rolls through Park Moabi with an interesting mix of color schemes up front... (more)

Dropping downgrade through the upper reaches of Soledad Canyon, southbound Amtrak train #11 passes through Acton on the former SP Saugus Line.

Approaching the small town of Acton, detouring northbound Amtrak train #14 hugs lower Soledad Canyon Road as the train nears the top of the grade.

Cloud cover actually helps in what would otherwise be a backlit scene as detouring northbound Amtrak train #14 winds its way through Soledad Canyon on the former SP Saugus Line at Ravenna.

Pacing Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight on a detour through Soledad Canyon.

An early arrival for Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief at the Albuquerque platform with a New Mexico thunderstorm brewing in the distance.

On the first of three central valley detours for this year, northbound Amtrak train #14 passes the historical site of Lang siding on Southern Pacific's former Saugus Line. Lang is famous for being... (more)

Assigned to the point of the Brooklyn, Oregon to Los Angeles, California trailer train, the Southern Pacific heritage locomotive has the train well in hand as it passes the Allen crossovers locate... (more)