New platforms at Vincent Grade……over the last year Metrolink has brought several upgrades to their trackage and facilities at Vincent Grade/Acton, the summit of the former Southern Pacific 'Sa... (more)

Westbound double stacks drift through Kingman Canyon on BNSF's Seligman Subdivision.

Westbound tonnage climbs out of Siberia on BNSF's Needles Subdivision as a eastbound shooter slips down grade in the foreground. The colorful consist on the westbound manifest includes ES44C4 7156... (more)

As thunderheads kick up over northern New Mexico Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief splits a pair of Union Switch and Signal upper quadrant semaphore signals (7121 and 7121), west of Colmor, on BN... (more)

West of Springer, NM Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief powers out of a sag just moments before taking a clear signal from the eastern most set of surviving semaphores.

Waiting on the Chief……silhouetted against the timeless light of the moon a pair of Union Switch & Signal intermediate semaphores stand guard over BNSF's Raton Subdivision in northern New Mexic... (more)

Completed in 1904 by the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railway the cement arch bridge spanning the Santa Ana River continues to serve the line's successor, Union Pacific, well over 100 yea... (more)

Pool is cool! Road power from three class 1s come together as a pair of Union Pacific Z trains meet in Beaumont, CA. Trailing CSX and Norfolk Southern motors trail the head-end consist on the east... (more)

Leaving Utah's Weber Canyon a pair of EMDs drift through Devil's Slide with an eastbound Z train tied to the drawbar.

With Tehachapi's rolling hills still clinging to the colors of Spring a westbound loaded grain train carefully drops through Cliff on the western slope of the Tehachapi Range. Nestled down in the ... (more)

Emerging from Cache Creek Canyon an eastbound Union Pacific manifest conforms to the final slope of the Tehachapi Range before dropping down into the Mojave Desert.

As Metrolink F59PH 854 accelerates out of Palmdale, ready to make a run up Vincent Grade, the searchlights at Palmdale Junction on Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision observe in silence. Their days... (more)

An eastbound Metrolink 'extra' slowly pulls out of the siding at CP Ravenna within the confines of Soledad Canyon. Originally completed in 1876 by the Southern Pacific Railroad as the final link i... (more)

The early morning sun greets Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief as it sails across the floor of the Antelope Valley just shy of entering Lancaster, CA. This is the second of three detours of the S... (more)

Racing Friday morning commuters on paralleling Sierra Highway Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief climbs Vincent Grade leaving the Antelope Valley. The Southwest Chief has been detoured by way of M... (more)