Home rails! Trundling South on the jointed rail of the UP Desoto Subdivision, UP 1982 looks right at home on this ex-Missouri Pacific line. Thanks to the little kids who were screaming whil... (more)

Two on the point and one on the rear ease this Westbound stack train past the most famous location in the Feather River Canyon. A scene of this type, a stack train under Highway 70 at Pulga, will ... (more)

Roadwork on Interstate 80 continues and drivers head up and down the pass, while Amtrak #5 glides downgrade through Emigrant Gap.

Due to another F59PHI breakdown, the Coach Yard Switcher, AMTK 503, has been pressed into Capitol Corridor service and is seen leading #535 through San Lorenzo at a very high rate of speed.

UP 1351, which lived a previous life as DRGW 3096 (blt 4/1972) leads the Mulford Local through the dying breed in the San Francisco Bay Area: Searchlight signals. These searchlights on the ... (more)

Sleet falling drones out the sound of EMD and GE's thundering up the 1.6% grade out of Coldstream Canyon. The wet rails are giving this SD9043MAC some troubles, and their speed is down to 11MPH, l... (more)

Fall colors are barely visible through the thick fog that's surrounding the mountainscape of Donner Pass, while a Westbound enters the rock cut leading to Tunnel 36.

With four inches of Sierra Cement already on the ground, more snow continues to fall while a Westbound stack train prepares to emerge from the ten thousand foot Tunnel 41.

Rain falling doesn't stop the Eastbound Stockton to Provo trackage rights train from heading downhill along the Truckee River at Glenshire.

After I trudged through two feet of Sierra Cement, I was greeted by a UP 7431 leading a Westbound I train out of Tunnel 36.

Past, present, future! After shuffling sheeple between Sacramento and the Bay Area, CDTX 2009, 2010, and 2011 recieve their TLC, quietly tucked away within the confines of the Kirkham Stree... (more)

A foreman from the car department inspects the IOAST, awaiting an outbound crew in Oakland, with UP 1983 leading.

A Heritage Two SD70MAC brings up the rear of a loaded bucket, working in DPU mode.

Another ten thousand footer heads East through Union Station, ultimately bound for Chicago.

After setting out the last cut of cars going to storage, the A-B-A FP9 set head back to town... After seeing many railfans in my life, I'm afraid some of them might exceed the weight limit in town... (more)