The faint glow, from the cloud covered sun setting in the west, hits the side of a short UP cement train climbing the last few miles of the eastern Tehachapi slope here at Monolith, right passed t... (more)

A north bound UP intermodal drops down and around Allard's horseshoe curve in the late afternoon light of a perfect spring day.

Spring finally arrived in the Tehachapi foothills with big fluffy white clouds drifting through the sky, casting shadows on the green landscape. The DPU of a south bound UP intermodal slowly pushe... (more)

Amongst the color and vegetation of spring, a southbound UP manifest pops out of tunnel 2, at the north end of Bealville siding on this cloudy afternoon.

A UP intermodal drops down into the Bealville boot on a late afternoon in winter.

On a cold, breezy morning in the Tehachapi's, a few minutes before sunrise, a short UP manifest tackles the grade at Keene and is rounding the horseshoe curve.

It’s late on a warm Fall afternoon, as a southbound UP grainer quickly crosses the San Joaquin river. The continuing work to build the high speed rail bridge over the river can be seen behind bo... (more)

Pushing the rear of it's Fresno manifest south up the Tehachapi's on a warm summer morning at Marcel.

Deep within the trees of the Sierra foothills, faded armour yellow and warn out UP wings catch the last rays of afternoon sunlight as an east bound manifest, bound for Roper, UT, blasts out of a t... (more)

It's difficult to not get identical looking scenes all through the higher Sierras with such a high amount of pine trees all around the UP main lines. Here an eastbound empty grainer climbs the num... (more)

Descending the grade at Emigrant Gap on a freshly fallen snow morning and approaching the start of double track for the rest of the trip down into Roseville.

A UP intermodal from the shipping port of Brooklyn, Oregon curves it's way up through Allard and into the horseshoe in the very early moments of sunlight on this perfect spring morning.

Climbing the number 2 track up the Sierra Nevada foothills, on a warm summer morning, tunnel threading between 15 and 16. The Sierra Nevada foothills to me are like paradise on earth for a rail ph... (more)

A UP officer special glides down the pacific coastline just outside of Ventura, CA, in the early hours of a perfect fall day, while surfers enjoy the morning waves.

Catching the day's last rays of sunlight and approaching the UP/BNSF diamonds in south Fresno on a hot summer afternoon.