Weed sprayer tied down at the Ice Deck at Loma Linda.

Just after sunset on Black Friday finds a burst of action on Cima Hill. A westbound manifest lumbers up grade at 14mph, while roughly 4 miles behind, a Z train running on their blocks keeps its di... (more)

BNSF's version of the "Salad Shooter" is the Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z-train. With containers filled with frozen goods, what makes this train stand out over the rest of interm... (more)

Climbing out of Ludlow towards Ash Hill, five GE locomotives notch up as they hustle 73 UPS loads on a hot LA to Willow Srpings, IL Z6.

A powered up Willow Springs, IL to San Bernardino, CA Z-train has no issues doing track speed of 50 MPH up the 1.4% grade of Ash Hill near East Siberia.

Imagine my surprise when during a furtive little drive and a "hardy hi you silver" found this beast sitting, waiting for its run. Got him on the road and the sun was great, but on the wrong side... (more)

BNSF priority intermodal races east near Denair Ca. on a cold Friday afternoon.

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe FP45 5992 (ex-5942, nee-102), teamed with FP45s 5991 and 5998, is on the point of a 14-car Analysts' Special climbing Cajon Pass as the train heads from San Diego to Bak... (more)

As BNSF Railway ethanol unit train U-HERWAT7-22A makes its way to Watson, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, from Hereford, Texas, it meets BNSF train B-LACLAC6-26D (Los Angeles to Full... (more)

A 4 unit set of power backs down to it's train at West Colton.

A very busy afternoon on Beaumont Hill finds an eastbound I train with a new repaint leading.

UP 5941 leads a Tucson to Montclair manifest in the early afternoon at El Casco.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train H-KCRI1-23 rolls into Barstow, where the crew that has handled this train across the Needles Sub, having boarded in Needles, will get off to allow a fres... (more)

Not sure of the actual location. Not on the slide. I was a furious chase from Redlands. They must have held him somewhere because he had a good roll on at the orange groves. It's all morphed s... (more)

Roughly 7½ hours earlier, at 6:12 am, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 774 departed San Luis Obispo for San Diego. A little over two-thirds of the way there, CDTX SC-44 2122 and its six-car train... (more)