B40-8W 557, her red paint gleaming in the afternoon sun, leads a 199 train across the lift span at Orwood in the heart of the San Joaquin Delta.

SD45R 5392 smokes it up at Glen Frazer as it leads a time-sensitive 199 train up the canyon.

7418 West, a 199 train out of Chicago on a 52-hour schedule to Richmond, rounds a curve at Christie on its ballast-burning trip to northern California.

Passing the caboose of a work train that will be used for lowering the bottom of the tunnels in Franklin Canyon to allow high-cube double-stacks to pass through, a 199 train roars toward tunnel 3 ... (more)

Leaving the smoke stacks and catalytic crackers of the Tosco Oil Refinery behind, a 199 train rounds a curve at Maltby and begins the climb to Franklin Canyon.

Surrounded by Glen Frazer's lush springtime vegetation, GE Dash 8-40B 7428 leads a 199 train into a side canyon that leads to tunnel 3, the longest on the entire Santa Fe system.

A hot 199 train climbs out of the San Joaquin Delta into Franklin Canyon, leaving the Tosco Oil Refinery in its wake.

The metallic surfaces of the locomotives leading a hot 199 train through Antioch are burnished by the ultra-warm rays of a low, afternoon sun.

With the sun low over Suisuin Bay, 648 West crosses a concrete trestle in Antioch as it hustles along the edge of the Delta.

With the Stockton Tower operator looking on, Santa Fe 609 West rolls through the SP diamonds and heads for the San Joaquin Delta.

Leading a hot 199 train through the heart of Franklin Canyon, SD40-2 5162 breaks into afternoon sunlight at Glen Frazer.

With eight high-powered B-Bs on the point, a 199 train kicks up dust through Oakley as it passes a high-wide detector doing 70 mph.

With the sun in its face, a 199 train crosses the lift span at Orwood on the Old River.

With the storage tanks of Getty Oil for a backdrop, a super-hot 199 train begins the climb of the 1.0 percent grade from Maltby to tunnel 3 in Franklin Canyon.

Santa Fe FP45 103 leads a super-hot 199 train through a curve at Bixler.