Morning sun illuminates the Mojave Desert as a westbound Z train pulls the grade up Ash Hill on main one at Klondike. Trailing the road power is the recently (cosmetically) restored Santa Fe 5704.... (more)

With the thick marine layer still shrouding Chorro and the San Luis Obispo Valley UP 7619 peaks around the curve leading to the 'little horseshoe', catching the first rays of the morning.

As aging wooden snow fences observe silently the eastbound 'Sinclair local' approaches its namesake. The local's normal consist of tanks & hoppers, bound for the Sinclair refinery, are accompanied... (more)

Looking right at home under the Southern California sunshine, Norfolk Southern's 'Savanna & Atlanta' heritage painted SD70ACe drifts across the 984 foot long bridge over the Santa Ana River near A... (more)

Climbing out of the Mojave Desert and into the Tehachapi's two new ET45AHs, UP 2571 and 2584, bookend a pair of 8000s as the MWCRVB climbs the grade at Warren. Soon the Mojave Subdivision will cro... (more)

Finding a break in the clouds the morning sun finds Union Pacific's 'Southern Pacific' heritage unit on the point of eastbound tonnage, working up Sherman Hill through the searchlight installation... (more)

With ten pieces of Union Pacific's first class varnish in tow and Union Pacific's 'Military Spirit' locomotive leading the charge a westbound passenger special sails through Pine Bluffs, WY having... (more)

Amtrak's detouring Coast Starlight works its way through the golden Tehachapi hills as it approaches the west portal of Tunnel 2. The Starlight is detouring due to bridge work on the coast line.

Westbound stacks drop down grade at Tehachapi's famous Loop.

On the shorest day of the year, Espee and C&NW heritage team up with a UP GEVO to do battle with Beaumont hill. The trio is about to pass under the Hwy 111 overpass, west of Palm Springs, CA.

Under a Wyoming sky an eastbound intermodal train drops down from Hadsell and into Rawlins in the heart of Wyoming's 'high desert'.

Carefully dropping down into the San Luis Valley an eastbound Union Pacific auto train highlights the serpentine curves on the approach to Stenner Creek, trading distance for elevation in the Coas... (more)

Santa Fe 3751 leads it's SB special across a fill south of Carlsbad, CA after it's service stop at Poinsettia.

With the afternoon sun peaking in and out of the clouds a lumber heavy eastbound Union Pacific manifest climbs the grade out of Caliente and towards the former station of Allard (today the westend... (more)

With the rear of their train still in Nebraska westbound double stacks march into Pine Bluffs, WY with rebuilt SD9043MAC 3666 on the point, a UP SD70M and a pair of 'thoroughbreds' round out the c... (more)