CSX 7858 South, one of many vehicle trains that ply this route, heads southwest toward Louisville, KY.

NWP 4324 South makes its way through the oak trees along the right of way with three SD9s for power.

Four SP GP9s haul a string of loaded Rio Grande coal hoppers out of Santa Cruz toward the cement plant in Davenport.

Near sunset, NS SD70 No. 2522 leads a 25A though Ludlow, KY. The 25A originates at Calumet Yard in Chicago, and terminates in Danville, KY.

Cal Northern 107 West, a DGNO transfer freight headed for Mockingbird Yard, passes the station just as the sun sets. The train is on UP's Dallas Sub, and will soon get onto the TRE.

Amador Central Baldwin S12 No. 9 drops down out of Martel with woodchips and other freight for SP at Ione.

UP 2200 East's conductor carefully dismounts the right of way at Rillito to give another train a roll-by. The other train is visible in the distance on the main line, and accelerating as indicated... (more)

BNSF GP39-2 No 2893 makes up a train at Saginaw Yard. Meanwhile, GP39-3s 2594 and 2593 wait to take a transfer to Alliance Yard.

In July 1995, SD75M No. 224 leads a hot Santa Fe 199 train on a tight right of way that sits between Suisun Bay and the Antioch downtown overlook. The 199 train was one of the hottest trains on th... (more)

Late in the afternoon, a couple of young boys hang out near a small bridge as a WP westbound crosses it. To the right of the train is the WP-Santa Fe interchange yard.

KCS SD70MAC No. 3939 pushes on the rear of a unit sand train headed south into Saginaw Yard for a crew change. The KCS crew will hand off the train to BNSF here, who in turn will hand it off to Ft... (more)

A westbound BNSF manifest roars through the vertical curves at Williams Junction. At the far left, a vehicle train headed for Phoenix via the Peavine Line approaches on Main One.

A westbound Amtrak San Joaquin passes vineyard's at Duffy filed with pools of rain water. Out here southeast of Stockton, where the topography is pancake flat, these short trains do all of track s... (more)

On an August afternoon in 2002, monsoon storms from the north and south have met and combined over Tucson to form very forbidding skies. Heading out of town is an eastbound UP stack train, who no ... (more)

A UP welder that's been working on the crossing behind him is looking at the rails of the Mineola Sub as loaded well cars pass over them. He's watching for fractures in the rails he could fix whil... (more)