A year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a train on the Shasta Route does not display any indication of the change.

A rapidly moving winter storm is moving eastward across the Mojave Desert. Dramatic clouds were forming just as quickly as the sun would start to set behind them. The potential of dramatic lightin... (more)

UP 7776 hustles a southbound manifest along Hwy 99 near McFarland.

Southbound San Joaquin 710 sprints through Modesto.

New Knoxville Locomotive Works unit for A.L.Gilbert at Keyes, CA. Not sure of a model for this unit.

San Joaquin 710 at Hughson Ca.

A trio of SD40-2s, plus an SD45, grind upgrade to get a Union Pacific freight out of San Bernardino and over Cajon Pass. One-month-old UP SD40-2 3730 leads this train as it passes through Verdemo... (more)

A former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway baggage car, demoted to Maintenance of Way service and renumbered ATSF 205998, sits in Devore, and the base of Cajon Pass. (Devore, California – Marc... (more)

This trackage, threading between a stand of palm trees and a row of eucalyptus, is Union Pacific's San Pedro Subdivision. It was, before the UP acquired the Southern Pacific, the UP's mainline to ... (more)

A fleet of afternoon westbound trains in San Timoteo Canyon on 3/11 continued with UP 5700 west leading westbound symbol ISILB2.

A pair of factory fresh C44ACM's lead westbound train MFWWC near El Casco.

UP 6632 leads an eastbound AMLEG as it rounds Beaumont curve in the early morning.

D8-40CW 873 leads C30-7 8155, D8-40BW 509 and D8-40CW 807 round the loop.

With the last of the sun's rays, Union Pacific SD70M no. 3940 leads the southbound Guadalupe Local along the Ventura Coastline on the Santa Barbara Subdivision.

A midday CalTrain limited service arrives Menlo Park behind a well worn F40. These locomotives are reaching the end as electric EMU service is slated to start at the end of 2024