Number three from my Covid gallery of pictures close to home. The BNSF makes its single track ABS entry into the Bay Area via Franklin Canyon. Fortunately much of the surrounding country side ha... (more)

This is another view from my Covid Gallery, when I stayed close to home and got to reacquaint myself with my local railroads. This is number two of the series. Train 6 the Zephyr heads eastward ... (more)

This is one from my Covid gallery. The pandemic kept me close to home and I made the best of it by reacquainting myself with the railroads in my backyard. No getting on an airplane to fly to exo... (more)

Long summer days combined with SMART curtailing passenger service due to COVID has created a window of opportunity to chase the NWP freight from Ignacio to Petaluma. Normally all this is after da... (more)

C&TS ex-DRGW narrow gauge rotary OY plows the deep snow at Cumbres. This was the first operation of the OY since 1997, and was part of a two day event hosting about 150 photographers and spectato... (more)

C&TS ex-DRGW narrow gauge rotary OY plows eastbound just west of Cresco siding. This was the first operation of the OY since 1997, and was part of a two day event hosting about 150 photographers ... (more)

Low morning sun highlights the sage and grass, and the cool temps condense some steam, as UP 4014 heads down the Wahsatch grade at Castle Rock, Utah.

"Big Boy" 4014 slowly passes Wahsatch, Utah, heading west on the block of a long stack train ahead. Wahsatch is the top of the grade between Evanston and Ogden, and I understand these engines wer... (more)

Some fall color accents the scene as the 4014 slowly exits a red flagged work area between Echo and Morgan.

The morning temps were below freezing as 4014 slowly headed west from Evanston enroute southern California.

An eastbound exits Palisade Canyon just west of Carlin in early morning light. The Humbolt River is near flood stage from the runoff from a wet winter. The train is on the former Western Pacific... (more)

A very late westbound California Zephyr approaches the east switch at Shafter in eastern Nevada on a lovely spring day. If I remember correctly 5 was about eleven hours late due to midwest floodin... (more)

After taking a shot at Henefer, by the time the bumper to bumper traffic allowed me to get to Evanston the train had unloaded and backed into the yard, it was only around noon but I called it a da... (more)

After getting my first shot near Peterson, I joined the crowd on the freeway and inched east toward Evanston. I had to go that way because my hotel for the night was in Evanston. The train made a... (more)

In some ways this image summarizes Mothers Day with the 4014: beautiful weather, the spectacular Wasatch Mountains, and crowds of regular folks enjoying the spectacle of a "Big Boy" on a... (more)