The city of Fowler, located ten miles south of Fresno in California’s San Joaquin Valley, is a fairly typical agricultural area typical of so many in the Valley. This area has a large number of... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway GP7u 2071 and GP35 2902 sit in San Bernardino’s A Yard. ATSF 2071 was built by EMD in September 1952 as ATSF GP7 2762. It was rebuilt at the railway’s Cleb... (more)

A brace of Southern Pacific EMD’s pass through Tunnel 2 on the Tehachapi grade. The slide labelling indicates that these are helpers, so they are going away from the lens.

A Southern Pacific GP9 passes the landmark Kern Junction tower near Bakersfield, California. This is the point where the SP and the Santa Fe come together for the eastbound climb to Tehachapi. The... (more)

A relatively short eastbound Southern Pacific perishable train descends Cajon Pass. This location is now known as Silverwood, and there is a connection between the westbound Santa Fe, seen to the ... (more)

Recently shopped ABBA set of SD45u's at San Bernardino. SD45u 5375/SD45Bu 5502/SD45Bu 5501/SD45u 5376.

Led by Union Pacific EMD SD40-2 No. 3391, an eastbound UP double stack train notches it up as it curves out of Dale Junction and heads for Dale on Sherman Hill’s Track 1 in July 1984.

SP 7867 is leading a stack train thru numerous curves as it climbs Beaumont Hill.

A smoking B-boat lashup drags an SP train up Beaumont Hill in 1984.

Five locomotives, four models, two builders, one railroad ... An eastbound Santa Fe freight is just six miles from the summit of its crossing of the Tehachapi Mountains as it pops out of one of th... (more)

A Cotton Belt SD45T-2 shoves a westbound Southern Pacific manifest at Alray, California.

In an everyday scene that now seems so alien, a Santa Fe caboose punctuates an eastbound pig train climbing Cajon Pass.

Three trains are seen in this view! SP 9179 heads West on the main at Canyon while SP 8561 waits at the East end of the siding. In the background, a Santa Fe train heads Eastbound on the North M... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe manifest, led by a GP30 and a half-dozen GP35’s, passes two Southern Pacific SD9’s on a work train at Cliff. Caliente is visible over the cab of the lead unit. All of the... (more)