4014 has just entered California and approaches the summit of Beckwourth Pass at approximately 5200 ft. above sea level.

4014 gets underway for the run down the Canyon Sub at the Clio Trestle, just west of Portola.

4014 gets underway southbound/westbound out of the whistle stop in Oroville.

4014 rolls through the hills approaching Oroville.

4014 rolls westward on the Westward Bound Tour, crossing the the North Fork of the Feather River and passing under the arch bridge carrying California Route 70. The CA-70 bridge was opened in 19... (more)

173 tops the grade at Lowell with a very short train. 173 had been a high priority Linwood-Memphis train that picked up a Memphis intermodal block in Charlottes set off by 221, and the two trains... (more)

24X roars through Lowell, NC under the Southern signals with the Employees' Unit (aka The A-Team Unit) leading.

NCDOT's US Open Special heads northbound over the Haw River on the way from Pinehurst to Raleigh. The track is the former Seaboard Air Line main.

2816 rolls toward Minot

A veteran EMD unit still in service in northern North Dakota.

2816 bottoms the grade out of Anamoose making near her maximum, with a short climb to Martin and maintenance stop at Harvey ahead.

Once upon a time in North Dakota . . . J52 pulls up to the control point at Drake and pauses to have a conversation with another local working the yard about how to make their moves.

2816 pulls into the United States at Portal, ND as they pass the abandoned turntable.

Bonus train! 2816 took a while at the border and ended up meeting 149 at Spiral, west of Kenmare. Nearly 12,000 feet of 149 is visible as it passes Middle Des Lacs Lake on the run for the border... (more)

The local from Max to Drake, ND pulls high to a cut of their 111 car train, consisting of mostly frac sand empties, into the yard at Drake. They needed the light twice to get the entire train put... (more)