Pool is cool! With recently delivered C45AH 8152 on the point an eastbound Z train hustles up main track #3 and into Cajon Summit, trailing the lead motor are a pair of CSX GEs, lending their hors... (more)

Crossing over to main track 1 from main track 2 a westbound manifest begins its journey down the western slope of Sherman Hill having topped the summit a few miles back at Dale, WY. Union Switch &... (more)

On a warm evening along the Central Coast, a Union Pacific passenger train descends the horseshoe curve just above San Luis Obispo, California. In the distance, you can see the quiet town of San L... (more)

Late afternoon in Cajon Pass finds a pair of trains 'racing' up the western slope of Southern California's Cajon Pass. In the foreground UP 8094 west (north by Union Pacific's interpretation) work... (more)

Drifting downgrade through Canyon on Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision, the southbound "Brooklyn" intermodal train is nearing the end of its run down the I-5 corridor from Portland, and... (more)

A beautiful clear morning in Cajon Pass finds a westbound Union Pacific doublestack train descending the grade on main track #2 of the BNSF Cajon Subdivision, while an uphill train passes on main ... (more)

Union Pacific's westbound ZLCLT hustles into Mojave, CA aiming its momentum at the eastern slope of the Tehachapi grade. Waiting for the hotshot Z to clear sits a westbound BNSF grain train, await... (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)

Heading into the setting sun, the Union Pacific Board Of Directors Special, climbs to the top of Cuesta before dropping down into San Luis Obispo.

The Union Pacific Board Of Directors Special has become a Engineering Department Special. The sun is trying to break through, but the fog is very persistent, as the Special traverses the Carpenter... (more)

Union Pacific's Board of Directors Special has now become a Engineering Department Special. The fog has settled on the Coast Route, as the Special makes it's way through the Wine growing region of... (more)

Union Pacific's Board of Directors Special passes through the small community Wellsona on the outskirts of Paso Robles on way to San Luis Obispo.

Union Pacific's Board of Directors Special rounds into San Luis Obispo station where it will tie up for the night. It will continue it's journey to Los Angeles in the morning.

UP 8266 rolls east along the Pacific Ocean at Emma Woods State Beach with a classy 18 car passenger train deadheading to West Colton on the drawbar.

Like a vampire in the presence of the morning sun, fog begins to lift and melt away, allowing precious rays of morning light to slip passed the thick shroud still covering the Tehachapi's. With a ... (more)