Just after departing LAUPT with the first leg of it's SB journey, Santa Fe 3751 steams along the west side of the LA river.

In a change from recent years the 2018 edition of the Denver Post's Frontier Days special will layover at Union Pacific's, former Rio Grande, North Yard. Linking North Yard with UP's Greeley Subdi... (more)

Santa Fe Steam returns to the Needles District. 3751 rumbles along BNSF's Needles Subdivision west of Ludlow, CA as she makes her way back home to Los Angeles. 3751 has just spent a few days at th... (more)

With its sharp orange paint fading to a peach color, BNSF 7777 drops down main 2 with a westbound manifest passing the location where old Cajon station was located.

Nestled within the Searles Valley between the Argus and Slate mountain ranges lays the vast Searles Lake. Tapping the mineral rich wealth of the dry lake, where 98 of the 104 known chemical elemen... (more)

UP 7170 leads the STAYR 16 through the cross overs at South Mojave as it prepares to take BNSF's Mojave Sub out to Barstow.

Santa Fe 3751 rests at the North end of the San Diego station near CP Ash after it's SB trip.

Peacefully simmering under a full moon lit sky, Rio Grande K-36 #489 sits at the head of a eastbound manifest at the Chama coaling tower, awaiting a highball to tackle the 10,000' Cumbres Pass on ... (more)

A quiet afternoon in the Searles Valley is momentarily disrupted by the whine of dynamic brakes and the unmistakable rhythm of steel wheels on jointed rail, marking the return of Trona Railway's d... (more)

Coming into Oroville.

The calm piece of another summer day in the Feather River Canyon is broken by a familiar yet almost forgotten pulse of a EMD 567 series prime mover and the colors of the fallen Western Pacific rai... (more)

Santa Fe 3751 slowly leads it's 4 car special down into San Bernardino while BNSF 7651 pushes hard on the rear of a WB stack train.

Amtrak train #3, the Southwest Chief pulling in for it's station stop in Barstow, almost 11 hours late. The beautiul Casa Del Desierto proves to be an excellent back drop to this rare daylight sig... (more)

Just after departing Portland the 4449 crosses the Willamette river as it heads for Wishram, WA. Soon the 4449 will be stretching her legs as she glides along the Fallbridge Sub at speeds of 60 mp... (more)

Amtrak F59PHi 457 accelerates its southbound Pacific Surfliner as it passes along side the west bank of the LA river just up from Mission tower and LAUPT. 457 is wearing a special safety wrap.