The serpentine curves which William Hood utilized in order to take the Southern Pacific Railroad out of the Caliente Valley and up the Tehachapi range, ultimately to link northern and southern Cal... (more)

With the rolling Tehachapi Hills dressed down with Spring wildflowers a 3 car Union Pacific inspection special departs Bealville behind new ET45AH 2617. The special included: Union Pacific's Mobil... (more)

A relatively new Tier IV locomotive is starting to show some grime after making back and forth trips between Oregon and California this winter.

Heavily laden with lumber from the Pacific Northwest, Union Pacific's eastbound QRVWC begins its climb through the Tehachapi foothills at Ilmon, leaving the southern San Joaquin Valley behind. Aft... (more)

Still fresh and clean, twin UP tier IV's hang out at Albina

Absent the last few seasons on the mountain, Tehachapi's Spring wildflowers make their colorful return, brought up by winter rainfall. Slipping down the western slope of the Tehachapi's a westboun... (more)

A clear and unseasonably warm February day in southern California's Inland Empire finds a Union Pacific manifest freight arriving from Fresno at West Colton with three new Tier 4 complaint GE loco... (more)

Slipping out of the Tehachapi Valley a lumber heavy QRVWC is held back by a trio of 'mountain motors' led by new tier IV ET45AH 2607. While the QRVWCs head end prepares to enter the Cache Creek na... (more)

Arriving at its ultimate destination at West Colton, a UP manifest freight from Roseville with a pair of Tier 4 engines and an older GE for head end power prepares to enter the receiving yard as i... (more)

Leaving the mountains that form Cajon Pass behind it, a Union Pacific mixed freight from Roseville to West Colton descends the grade into the San Bernardino area as it approaches Dike on the UP Mo... (more)

Nearing its final destination at West Colton, a southbound Union Pacific manifest freight from Roseville winds through a cut in Rialto on UP's Mojave Subdivision. The famous arrowhead rock formati... (more)

UP ET45AH 2659 leads the ZLAMQ east of Beaumont at Banning as it races along the Yuma Sub.

UP ET45AH 2624 West Colton, Ca.

About a minute before sunset, 3 ET45AH's lead a long Roseville to West Colton freight off the Mojave Sub seen from the Pepper Ave overpass.

Nearing its final destination at West Colton, a southbound Union Pacific mixed freight from Fresno descends the ex-SP Palmdale Cutoff at Rialto with three new GE Tier 4 engines on the head end.