A 144 train negotiates the first of the Gilluly Loops as you head east up the western slope of the Wasatch Range.

Northbound and southbound NS manifests meet at the north end of the Cincinnati Southern Bridge. In the foreground is the art deco dome of CUT.

Amtrak train No. 6, The San Francisco Zephyr, has an SD45, FP7A, and E units for power today, along with a colorful consist of hand-me-down passenger equipment as it storms through Cisco on its as... (more)

Santa Fe GP35u No. 2946 steps lightly over a visible "bump" in the rail on the pass east of Stockton Tower. The man on the ground is helping the engineer to navigate this nasty vertical ... (more)

Shop mechanics perform a sustained load test on SD24 No. 4511. They had the prime mover running full-out for at least a half an hour. Honestly, I don't know how they could hear each other, the sou... (more)

Centennial 6908 leads a hot Overland Mail West through Spring Garden on a beautiful summer afternoon.

Alco S4 No. 1514 switches the east end of the yard.

A Santa Fe uphill with a make-shift helper on the point meets an SP westbound at Rowan.

One of Santa Fe's ubiquitous cupola cabooses brings up the rear and of an eastbound at tunnel 2.

SP Trainmaster 3031 pauses with San Jose-bound train No. 128 at Bayshore, waiting for trains ahead to clear. The train is made of up exclusively of SP "suburban" coaches.

WP GEs 2251 and 3066 bask in the late afternoon at the railroad's yard in Stockton. Note that both sport an M5 horn.

A quartet of ex-SP&S Alco RS3s takes a transfer run from Vancouver Yard toward Portland as a UP GP30 leads a freight headed for Seattle across the Columbia River Bridge.

An eastbound manifest with a single SD45 for power waits just short of Roseville Yard while a westbound with several Southern Railway "skyboxes" on its rear end departs for Los Angeles.

Centennial No. 6908 accelerates an OMW out of Chilcoot Tunnel and onto the desert east of Portola.

Two eastbound BNSF coal loads await their crews as another runs around them.