Streetcars! On a fine afternoon in the Mojave Desert BNSF's Q NYCLAC experienced a mechanical issue which would require helpers to be called out of Needles. A few hot Z trains were run around ... (more)

On Saturday August 15th, 2015 three of the Swan Ranch Railroad's four motors take the weekend off while enjoying the morning sun. The colorful group is made up of three La Grange graduates of the ... (more)

The Phoenix to Yuma steam special rolls into Coolidge, AZ and is seen just north of town rolling off a 1925 built remnant of the Espee on the Phoenix Sub. Coolidge will be a service stop for the 8... (more)

With the modern San Diego skyline of tall buildings and palm trees behind it, 1927 vintage Baldwin 4-8-4 AT&SF 3751 perpares to back its train to the Miramar wye where it will be turned for the re... (more)

UP 1988 works up the western slope of the Tehachapi pass with the detoruing ZLTG2-24. The ZLTG2 normally uses the overland route across the country, however an avalanche up on Donner pass has clos... (more)

#5000. UP 7964, the 5000th Evolution series diesel produced by General Electric, heels to the Caliente horseshoe as it begins the most daunting portion of its eastward climb having already negotia... (more)

With the Tehachapi's locked in under a thick layer of cloud cover 19 copies of Union Pacific's first class varnish emerge into the warm afternoon sunlight at Warren, located on the eastern slope o... (more)

While the actual time zone 'line' between mountain and central is west of North Platte (near Paxton, NE) Union Pacific's time change is at the west end of their Bailey yard in North Platte. Having... (more)

A westbound 'shooter' drifts down grade through the searchlight installation at the west-end of Hermosa, led by Chicago & Northwestern 'heritage' unit #1995. This searchlight installation is one o... (more)

It has often been said of Tehachapi that it resembles a 1:1 scale model railroad, so in a scene that one might only expect to find on a model railroad we are reminded that this is 1:1 scale mounta... (more)

Harkening back to the days when the California Zephyr plied the rails of Western Pacific's 3rd Subdivision, the westbound Feather River Express rolls across Clio Trestle with former California Zep... (more)

Through the burn zone! A few months after the Blue Cut wildfire devastated nearly 58 square miles of landscape in Southern California's Cajon Pass a westbound BNSF double stack carefully drops dow... (more)

Amtrak Cab-age car 90208 brings up the marks on a northbound Surfliner as it passes the classic Santa Susana station and model railroad swapmeet at track speed. The train will soon arrive into Sim... (more)

WP 2001 leads the FRE off the West Branch bridge, the bridge carries the Canyon Sub & Hwy 70 across a portion of Lake Oroville.

The Western Pacific heritage ACe glides out of Bealville with hazmat safety bulkhead flat SSW 87679 and Central California Traction bay window caboose #100.