For only a brief time in the Mojave Desert in springtime, a myriad of desert plants come to life, like this flowering cactus with magenta blooms. as the plant soaks up the California sunshine, an ... (more)

Freccia del Sud,Agrigento-Milano

Late afternoon along the Cima Subdivision of the former Los Angeles and Salt Lake...sees this westbound manifest glide downgrade.

A EMD duo downgrade into Mojave with a short train of empty hoppers billed for Mojave yard.

An eastbound Union Pacific autorack train curves through cactus and the green desert plants of springtime at Shawmut, Arizona, on March 30, 2010. The roadbed in the foreground is the former alignm... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific locomotives pull a North Platte, Ne to West Colton, CA manifest up to the summit of Cima Hill, where it'll wait for an eastbound and westbound intermodel trains to pass.

The Joshua Trees stand silent as a 21 car manifest freight from West Colton, CA to Roper(Salt Lake City),UT flys up Cima Hill with engines in a 3+1 DP configuration late in the day on 2/18/13. The... (more)

A late afternoon westbound in the desert west of Shawmut. It was a very slow day and this was the only westbound I saw in 6 hours!

Train to the Clouds next to the cars bound to Viaduct La Polvorilla.

An eastbound stack train bound for Houston crosses over Lake Amistad, the magnitude of the bridge increased by the low water levels of the lake suffered from another long, dry Texas summer.

Scarce vegetation can be found in this desertic area, many cacti accompany the passage of trains of iron in a very cold and cloudy day, not common to observe in those places.

Santa Fe's 891 train snakes through Arizona's scenic Crozier Canyon on Oct. 7, 1995.

One tends to pick their path very carefully when walking to a photo spot here. The Cape Natal line into and out of Creighton was a wonderful venue for charters with this engine, but sadly Transne... (more)

Just beginning the slow descent downgrade toward Kelso, a westbound UP intermodal train passes through the summit of Cima Hill on the old LA&SL route.