It's just after 9 PM on a late cloudy September night as the power for the weekday LKK30 rests quietly, waiting for it's next assignment serving industries along both lines they serve each week.

SP 9742 leads the Swift RoadRailer train at Mojave.

The northbound Salinas Local hustles through Elkhorn Slough to clear for a late southbound Coast Starlight in Watsonville Ca.

The Modesto local passes through Ceres with hoppers bound for Keyes Ca.

UP 1124 leads the Kenton local past one of the many stripped and burnt cars which litter North Portland.

A pocket of light peers through the clouds as SP 9793 leads an eastbound freight up Tehachapi pass.

Cotton Belt 9656 and Union Pacific 6302 lead a Swift Roadrailer west through the town of Tehachapi at sunset.

No one knew it at the time, but when SP 4449 departed Eugene and climbed the Cascades in June 1992, it was the last time it would ever happen. The Daylight train to the NRHS Convention in San Jose... (more)

A pair of geeps arrive in Chapel Hill to pick up some cars at the UNC power plant.

Former Southern Pacific GP60 #9752 found itself a long, long way from home in this 2004 photograph I made in Catawba, South Carolina. She was being used by CSX at the former Bowater plant in York ... (more)

P07 uses all the real estate available to make their runaround move at Carrboro as they stop by the old station in town. Once they run around the train, they'll shove a single cement hopper to a f... (more)

P07 approaches the trestle between Chapel Hill and Carrboro at Milepost 8 on the J Line.

P07 heads down the J Line with a single car for Carrboro.

NS P23 finishes it's work at Innospec Active Chemicals, and is shown here headed down the spur and back to their train, which was parked on the mainline. (Train is moving away from me in this pict... (more)

October 14, 1996 - at Dolores Yard in Carson, CA (although I may be over the Compton border for this shot), a pair of speed lettered SP brutes await their next assignment. I was just getting back ... (more)