Amtrak No. 5 rolls through a summer rain storm at Rocklin behind two spotless SDP40Fs.

Looking like a model on a well-scenicked model railroad, UP 9108 West approaches the east portal of tunnel 9 deep in the Feather River Canyon. Rock slides in this area are common, and UP routinely... (more)

A hot 199 train kicks up dusk as it hustles through the San Joaquin Delta at 70 mph.

After cutting of its ex-SP FP7 lead helper at Roseville, an A-B-A set of ex-UP E-units accelerates out of Roseville at Antelope.

A brand-new red and silver Dash 8 leads a manifest upgrade out of tunnel 10 toward Marcel on a chilly but verdent morning in the spring of 1993.

Before delivering its coal loads to Davenport Cement, SP's Davenport Local cut off two of its four GP9s. Note the disrepair of the rail in the yard. The photographer remembers passing through this... (more)

Centennial 6908 leads an OMW along a ledge protected by a slide fence in the middle of Serpentine Canyon.

As their workday ends, the crew members of a Herzog rail train talk about their schedule for tomorrow as a BNSF southbound approaches in the distance.

Rebuilt trucks to be installed on SP GP60 9743, which is sitting next to the trucks on steel horses.

At sunset, tunnel motor No. 8242 idles in Cape Canaveral.

Late on a beautiful afternoon, WP GP40-2 No. 3555 leads a fast-paced eastbound through Kingdon, CA, several miles south of Thornton. Most famous for its drag strip, Kingdon was dead quiet most aft... (more)

On a searingly hot morning in the Mojave Desert, a Santa Fe eastbound hustles through the reverse curves west of Ludlow as a westbound fades into the distance.

With both crews of two eastbounds waiting in the north and south sidings at Picacho waving greetings, an officers special run in honor of retiring VP Jerry Davis hustles past on the main.

FCP FA 905 rolls out of the engine terminal as a workman cleans an MLW M420TR.

SP 7377, an aging SD40R, charges ino the Tehachapis with the loaded Oil Cans.