While UP's hot shot ZBRLC holds at Caliente, the MWCRV 22 drops down the hill and into Caliente.

Nearly one year after its repaint in fresh heritage colors, UP 1996, Southern Pacific heritage, still cleans up good. Seen departing Leroy after pausing for a track inspector's track & time 1996 i... (more)

A trademark of Tehachapi's eastern slope, the old Southern Pacific era iron frame signal bridge at MP 377 frames a westbound BNSF double stack train as it crawls out of the desert and into the Teh... (more)

Built in 1928 by the legendary Pullman-Standard company 'Virginia City' first known as the 'Crystal Peak' was assigned to ply the rails of the SP-UP-C&NW between Oakland, CA and Chicago, IL bringi... (more)

As the coastal marine layer begins to retreat back towards the Pacific Ocean the morning sun warms the rolling golden hills along California's scenic central coast. Within this picturesque setting... (more)

An early morning in the Sierra finds BNSF's eastbound Stockton, CA to Provo, UT trackage rights train dropping down the eastern slope of UP's Roseville Subdivision and into Truckee. Although its r... (more)

Climbing out of the Tehachapi foothills and into the Caliente Creek narrows BNSF's eastbound Q STOCHI works through the tunnel 1/2 (half) cut on its ascent to Caliente. Southern Pacific's original... (more)

Painted by the light of a low hanging sun a westbound Union Pacific manifest tops the hill at Percy, WY (west of Hanna) with two generations of EMD road power on the point. UP 3027 a new tier-IV S... (more)

KCS 4034 guides its trains through the South Mojave cross-overs and will soon begin its sprint across the high desert to Barstow and points east.

Southern California's Tehachapi Mountains are perhaps best known for the mountain railroad spectacle which takes place in these fabled hills on a daily basis. The countless curves and tremendous g... (more)

Slipping out of the Tehachapi Valley a lumber heavy QRVWC is held back by a trio of 'mountain motors' led by new tier IV ET45AH 2607. While the QRVWCs head end prepares to enter the Cache Creek na... (more)

Racing Friday morning commuters on paralleling Sierra Highway Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief climbs Vincent Grade leaving the Antelope Valley. The Southwest Chief has been detoured by way of M... (more)

With Southern Pacific daylight red and orange up front UP's eastbound empty Trona 'coal buckets' have ducked into the siding at Jim Grey to meet BNSF's westbound Boron local, very fittingly utiliz... (more)

With a pair of venerable old EMD motors leading the charge Union Pacific's Mina Local hustles through Painted Rock en route to Hazen, NV and the former Southern Pacific Mina Branch. As the local h... (more)

UP 1982 glides off the 138 overpass & into East Palmdale with the 3 car SEPOA 21 in tow.