Rebuilt SP Alco C630 No. 3148 sits outside the shops in early morning light. A big Alco in these parts is a rarity, since power assigned to Roseville is almost exclusively EMD.

A run-though vehicle train off the NS at Kansas City approaches the east end of Roseville Yard after coming over Donner Pass.

A hot westbound Z train hustles through Serpentine Canyon near the old station of Howells, between Virgilia and Belden. This is slide country, and heavy rains and snow are liable to bring rocks cr... (more)

A pair of rebuilt SD45s leads an eastbound train of steel pipe across the Mojave Desert just west of Amboy.

Early in the morning, a hot 189 train hustles past orchards in Oakley, CA, at the southern edge of the San Joaquin Delta.

GP35u (for "upgraded") No. 2927 helps lift a heavy manifest up the 1.0 percent westbound grade in Martinez, CA. The freight is headed for Franklin Canyon.

Workmen prepare CP power for tomorrow's "Canadian" at the railroad's engine terminal in downtown Vancouver.

A hot 199 train rolls downgrade after passing through tunnel 3, the longest on the entire Santa Fe.

SP's Lodi Local approaches Stockton Yard after a trip north to Lodi.

A westbound UP pig train rolls through the Sonoran Desert at the foot of the very and treacherous Maricopa Mountains.

The caboose end of an SP westbound heads for tunnel 2 as SP 8300 West waits in Bealville siding to proceed downhill toward Bakersfield. The 8300 has another westbound waiting at Allard, right behi... (more)

A westbound coal load with DPUs on the rear climbs out of the valley after crossing the Pecos River at Ft. Sumner. In the foreground, a contractor is building the right of way for a second main tr... (more)

An SP eastbound roars into the cut below the Loop.

In the early afternoon, a "Pepsi Can" GE races eastward with a San Joaquin at Knightsen, CA.

Late in the afternoon, a hot westbound pig train departs Oroville, heading south down the Sacramento Valley.