A hot Santa Fe 991 train roars around the Tehachapi Loop and heads for tunnel 10. During the early 1990s, this train regularly sported four red & silver Dash 8s for power. The main shipper on this... (more)
As a westbound military extra with tanks and mobile cranes enters Crozier Canyon, an intermodal train exits in the opposite direction.
An eastbound vehicle train exits a tunnel that's been "notched" for high-cube double stacks onto the Keddie Wye in the early morning sun in March 1996.
Three EMD locomotive types that figured significantly in UP's dieselization--a GP30, GP9B, and DDA40X--sit outside the railroad's shops at Portland awaiting repairs.
An eastbound manifest crosses the blue waters of the Colorado River from the Mojave Desert of California to the Mohave Desert of Arizona.
An SP hogger has just turned a consist of new SD40T-2s, with the class locomotive in the lead.
A maintenance worker rides BNSF's inspection car "Rio Grande" as the train's brakeman walks back up to the head end after throwing a switch into a siding.
WP's "final four" F7As depart Stockton Yard with a San Jose Turn.
Milwaukee 23 West, behind a brand-new SD40-2, rolls toward St. Paul Pass
An all-EMD helper assists in holding back 10,000 tons of crude oil as an SP BKDOU descends the eastern slope of Tehachapi Pass.
The deadline in Centennial Yard continues to grow.
UP 3092 East passes through an abandonded tunnel portal at Applegate.
Northwestern Pacific's "Daylight" proceeds north toward Willits along Highway 101.
Under a morning marine layer on the west side of Cajon Pass, two Centennials and an SDP35 have command of one of the railroad's hottest trains--the LAX.
A team of carmen scurry around CSX 5108 East on its way to check out another waiting freight train.
