With the snow capped Sierra mountains in the background, and a cold breeze blowing an eastbound Z train slithering like a snake through the S curves at Glenshire just east of Truckee, CA.
A manifest comes into West Colton Yard off the Palmdale Cutoff. Power are a pair of SD40T-2s (SP and DRGW) bookending a MK SD40M-2 rebuild. Oct 25 1995.
An intermodal train for the Harbor serpentines its way towards West Colton Yard under the leadership of a rebuilt GP40, a Cotton Belt GP60, and a grime coated SD45T-2. Image taken from Pepper Aven... (more)
The hostlers pull an outbound train forward after putting the head end power on (as seen from Pepper Ave, over West Colton Yard). They will then hop on the helper unit and take up to the other end... (more)
A trio of two kind of new and one brand new eSPee AC4400CWs head towards the Wilmington Wye south of Dolores Yard. October 15 1995.
Splitting the 'up rights' of a retired SP signal bridge, Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr works up stream in the Truckee River Canyon just above Floriston. Leader 174 wears Amtrak's new phase ... (more)
Vernon Diamond. The sun was setting in Vernon, California on April 12, 2022 when the Los Angeles Junction Railway was returning to the yard, crossing over the Union Pacific line at South Do... (more)
An Amtrak San Diegan set sits in Los Angeles Union Station awaiting its next run (I assume south, as the one going to Santa Barbara was on another track). F40PH #229 was built in May of 1975 and w... (more)
What's the 411? Cemex/SWPC (SouthWest Portland Cement) SDP35 411 (ex-Seaboard Coast Line 1962, exx-SCL 612, née-Seaboard Air Line 1111, EMD, 9/1964) sits at the Victorville, California fac... (more)
Cresting the summit of Cajon Pass behind 504 are GP60M 127, GP40X 3805 and GP60M 130.
NS power leads the westbound ZAILA near El Casco in San Timoteo Canyon.
Two classes of General Electric passenger power head the Southwest Chief and the Sunset Limited at Los Angeles Union Terminal on December 28, 1994.
BNSF SD70ACe 9201 leads a trio of units bound for Oakdale Ca.
BNSF SD70ACe 9201 leads a trio of units on Union Pacific's Oakdale Branch to retrieve intermodal carloads at Oakdale Ca.
UP 7140 leads a West Colton bound manifest just south of Dike on the Mojave Sub.
