At the bottom end of the small yard in Mojave, a former Santa Fe SD75M still looking sharp in warbonnet paint is on the point of a container train from the Bay Area, and is about to take the switc... (more)

Heading back to Trona, former SP and UP power haul a string of potash empties as the train approaches the Searles Station Cutoff.

UP 1996 leads the southbound Brooklyn trailers toward Los Angeles as it starts through the Caliente horseshoe and the hard uphill climb to Tehachapi summit.

At dusk BNSF's impressive Earthworm train passes through Sandcut northbound with its usual mid- and rear-train DPU's, and will shortly be arriving Bakersfield for a crew change.

Soft late afternoon light shines on a spiffy looking UP ES44 as it leads the Oakland across Tehachapi creek and about to hit the south switch at Rowen.

A low level Pacific Surfliner train pauses between assignments in track 10 at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal on a chilly winter evening.

With a destination at LAUPT only a couple of hours away, the late afternoon sun shines on detouring southbound Amtrak train #11 as it negotiates the switches at bottom end of the yard in Mojave.

After setting out 3985 a few miles back due to bearing problems, UP 844 picks up some protection power in the form of three SD40-2's at La Salle for the trip north into Cheyenne with the Denver Po... (more)

Eastbound priority intermodal is just out of Afton Canyon as it crosses the Mojave River on the approach to Basin siding on UP's Cima Subdivision.

Just west of the Lugo crossovers on BNSF's Cajon Sub, the UP 844 steam special finds sunlight in the high desert approaching the Hesperia area.

Rail Power "Green Goat" pauses between switching chores as a set of light power backs into the Commerce Diesel Shop on a cool November evening.

An eastbound BNSF intermodal makes good time through Park Moabi as it approaches the Colorado River bridge crossing at Topock.

This BNSF unit brings the photographer a little luck with the sucker holes out along the Needles Sub near Siberia on a late winter afternoon.

Looking sharp in the early morning sunlight near the east end of BNSF's Riverbank yard, an ex-ATSF SD40-2 now equipped for RCL operation awaits its next assignment.

Amtrak #185, looking a little naked without its nose logo, is on the point of tonight's eastbound Southwest Chief train #4 at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal.