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)