With skies about to let loose overhead a UP coal train sporting a former SP unit in DPU mode on the rear passes by Terry Ranch Rd.

Power off a BNSF Z train rests next to Hobart Tower which up until a few years ago controlled train movements across the UP/ATSF diamonds here. This is one of two interlocking towers that survive ... (more)

From a perch above the relatively new BNSF triple track at Swarthout Canyon, we catch a view of a westbound doublestack descending Cajon Pass on a cool and cloudy day in the San Gabriel mountains.

Just one more shot for railpictures contributor Mojavesubmp347.0 as the sun sets on a fine afternoon of railfanning in the Tehachapis.

Approaching the siding at Delfar on the UP's Fresno Sub is the Southern Pacific heritage engine on the point of the northbound ZLCBR trailer train bound for Portland, Oregon.

Late afternoon roster view of the Cargill Grain's GP9 at Verdemont.

A clear winter morning in the desert finds a heavy BNSF westbound with mix of doublestack containers and trailers stretched out on the big curve at Klondike on the former ATSF Needles District.

Santa Fe 3751 and train work steadily through Santa Fe Springs on the final lap of a weekend excursion to San Diego. In a few minutes the special will arrive LAUPT, marking another successful run ... (more)

Red and silver on the point of a cross country mainline freight is a rare sight these days but late afternoon on the last day of July found a pair of Warbonnet SD75I's with an eastern visitor thro... (more)

Leading a short and overpowered Phoenix-West Colton manifest train, UP 1983 nears the former site of Fingal on the ex-SP Yuma Sub.

Recently delivered to Metrolink, a new MP36 is about to enter Tunnel 19 in Soledad Canyon as it powers an Antelope Valley train toward Palmdale on the former SP Saugus Line.

The searchlight signals atop the classic SP cantilever at Sandcut pierce through the evening fog as a freight up ahead awaits an approaching northbound. A busy night on the Mojave Subdivision!

An early arrival for Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief at the Albuquerque platform with a New Mexico thunderstorm brewing in the distance.

Classic 2nd generation EMD power from SP and UP seems right at home as the engines lug a train of potash empties across the floor of the Searles Valley near the Pinnacles natural landmark.

Passing Slater on the UP's Fresno Sub, the Wimmer Engineering special nears Bakersfield where the train will change crews before heading into the Tehachapi mountains.