The off beat bark from a pair of Baldwin K-36s fill the crisp fall air as they team up to work westbound tonnage up Cumbres Pass. K-36 489 with its swing helper 484 have been dressed up in Rio Gra... (more)

Westbound double stacks contend with the stiff 1.4% continuous grade on the climb out of Needles, CA and the Colorado River Valley at Java on BNSF's Needles Subdivision. The arduous & continuous p... (more)

UP 1996 pulls into Roseville, CA with the SCBFR 17, passing a string of old SP MoW tank cars as it pulls into the yard.

As an eastbound Roseville, California to North Platte, Nebraska manifest continues its climb up one track it is moments from meeting a westbound North Platte, Nebraska to Oakland, California Z tra... (more)

Detouring Amtrak #11, the Coast Starlight zooms past the south end of Oban siding, MP 401 on the Mojave Sub. Passing a pair of old targets that still guard the south end of Oban.

With Arizona's Dome Valley behind it a hotshot Union Pacific Z train sails passed MP 766.5, west of Wellton, AZ on Union Pacific's Gila Subdivision. This portion of the former Southern Pacific 'Su... (more)

As the sky begins to grey, foreshadowing an incoming front, on a cool and blustery afternoon in Granger, WY a sliver of sunshine escapes finding a westbound shooter with tier-IV compliant SD70AH 3... (more)

Like a vampire in the presence of the morning sun, fog begins to lift and melt away, allowing precious rays of morning light to slip passed the thick shroud still covering the Tehachapi's. With a ... (more)

Westbound BNSF grain loads carefully drop down grade at Ilmon, with a mixed bag of power up front. The train's swing and rear distributed power consists can also be seen in this view, adding much ... (more)

Amtrak 132 charges up the final grade to Sandcut, after meeting an eastbound BNSF stack train which held at Bena (end of single track).

Former SP SD70M #9823 returns to its old stomping grounds on the point of the MFRWC 10.

Laboring up the eastern slope of the Tehachapi grade Union Pacific's westbound MWCFR approaches the 'three amigos' searchlight installation at Warren. Strategically placed to serve the CTC ruled m... (more)

Looking towards the former station of La Rose, eastbound tonnage slithers down the eastern slope of the Tehachapi grade in the Cache Creek narrows, following the contours of the creek's northern b... (more)

KCS "Belle" meets a classic SP signal bridge at MP 377.0, north of Mojave.

UP 1988 eases the ZLTG2 24 down the eastern slope of the Tehachapi's, passing MP 378, north of Mojave.