Meeting in the mountains....With the sound of a laboring southbound train echoing through the remote valleys that ring the Mojave Subdivision on the western slope of the Tehachapi grade a BNSF int... (more)

UP 4214 pauses just shy of Oban siding after running around the LOP53.

Laboring up the eastern slope of the Tehachapi grade BNSF SD70MAC 9954 has command of a colorful locomotive consist which includes CSXT 9017, NS 2628, and CP 9768. Passing under the last SP era si... (more)

Amtrak P42DC #145 leads a late running train 3 the Southwest Chief down the Cajon Pass & through the old station of Cajon.

The serpentine curves which William Hood utilized in order to take the Southern Pacific Railroad out of the Caliente Valley and up the Tehachapi range, ultimately to link northern and southern Cal... (more)

Through the morning mist the sun begins to get the better of lingering morning clouds as Union Pacific's hotshot Brooklyn trailers snake up the western slope of the Tehachapi grade leaving Marcel.... (more)

UP 3820 leads the SLVPX 21 through downtown Kelso. Behind the power is 61 cars of the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey blue unit circus train.

UP 5416 assaults the grade on its way up the western slope of the Cajon Pass. 5416 and a lengthy West Colton to Roseville manifest are passing through a cut located at MP 466 on UP's Mojave Sub, M... (more)

With Southern Pacific inspired 'Daylight' red and orange leading the way Union Pacific's eastbound MWCRO slips through the curves at the west entrance to Afton Canyon. At roughly 8 miles in length... (more)

With only a few miles to go before Tehachapi Summit is reached, the ZLCLT heels to the curves east of Monolith.

The effects of Southern California's recent storms can surely be seen in the form of mini-lake Lancaster in the foreground as well as the snow capped Tehachapi mountains, all the while UP 4639 bas... (more)

Train time in Green River, WY….A westbound double stack train beginning the pull up Peru Hill, having just received a fresh crew, meets an eastbound potash train at CP G819 just west of town. In... (more)

Tonnage bound for California's Imperial Valley conforms to the many curves on the western slope of Beaumont Hill as it seeks to achieve the summit.

Wildflowers cover the hillsides above Cliff as a loaded train of coil steel struggles up the western slope of the Tehachapi grade.

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)