As storm clouds move across southern Nevada's vast desert a loaded ballast train is westbound behind a pair of 'pooled' Ferromex ES44ACs. This line was originally built by the San Pedro, Los Angel... (more)

With freshly touched up 'heritage paint' F59PH 859 on the point Metrolink train 207 accelerates away from the station at Via Princessa and towards the siding at Honby. Train 207 terminates in Via ... (more)

Train time in Rawlins, WY…… A busy railroad town since the beginning Rawlins continues to serve as a crew change point and fueling location for trains traveling Union Pacific's busy Overland Route... (more)

Notching up while aglow in the late afternoon sun a pair of Utah Railway GP38-3s prepare to take the signal at CP Becks and head for home having finished their switching at Salt Lake City's Chevro... (more)

Late afternoon in Cajon Pass finds a pair of trains 'racing' up the western slope of Southern California's Cajon Pass. In the foreground UP 8094 west (north by Union Pacific's interpretation) work... (more)

A westbound unit tank train carefully drifts down the western slope of Cajon Pass near Blue Cut with recently delivered ES44C4 4264 on the point.

The Circus is in town! As the Summer sun beats down on southern California's famed Tehachapi Pass the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 'blue unit' Circus train carefully negotiates Clear Cree... (more)

Drifting down 'stream' through the Colorado Rockies a 17 car Union Pacific executive special is led by a pair of 'heavies', representing both EMD and GE, near Burns, CO on the Dotsero Cutoff. This... (more)

Bathed in late afternoon sun light the vibrant hills of southern California's San Timoteo Canyon are alive with the sound of whining dynamics and squealing wheels as a westbound Z train emerges fr... (more)

Code-lines and thoroughbreds………illuminated by the morning sun a westbound Union Pacific 'baretable' emerges from the west portal of tunnel #1, just east of Caliente, led by a pair of Norfolk South... (more)

Approaching Cable a westbound BNSF double stack threads through the four tunnels in the Tehachapi Creek Narrows on their journey up Tehachapi's western slope. From left to right are tunnels 17, 16... (more)

As waves off San Pablo Bay gently crash into the shore a westbound Amtrak Capitol Corridor service, train 745, hustles into Rodeo on its journey from California's State Capitol to San Jose, CA.

Weaving through the golden Cuesta Hills three big road motors contend with gravity as they lift the westbound 'oil cans' up Cuesta grade on California's Central Coast. Cuesta has always been the m... (more)

Union Pacific's eastbound empty Trona coal buckets roll through Nebo (West Daggett) on BNSF's Needles Subdivision with a clean UP 1996 (Southern Pacific heritage) as its lead motor. The train, exe... (more)

Having left Union Pacific's Nevada Subdivision at Hazen UP's Mina Local begins its journey down the Mina Branch towards Wabuska, NV. Leaving town the local rattles the switch to the Fallon Branch.... (more)