Union Pacific's Brooklyn trailers wind through the curves at Lang near the west end of Soledad Canyon. A grungy SP heritage locomotive is trailing last in today's consist.

Railfans and nonrailfans alike turned out in droves as UP 844 made its brief service stop at Indio in southern California's Coachella Valley.

A pair of UP EMD motors have been shut down for the evening and parked near Hobart Tower which once controlled movements here between the former Santa Fe 3rd District and UP's San Pedro Sub.

Pacing Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight on a detour through Soledad Canyon.

With a new crew on board for the trip across the Mojave desert, BNSF 635 picks up speed as it passes through Barstow on a spring morning.

U.S. economical woes are represented on this BNSF Z train in early 2009, but nonetheless it makes for a pretty sight at Essex sprinting across the high desert toward Barstow on the Needles Sub.

Just minutes out of LAUPT, the eastbound Southwest Chief crosses the Los Angeles River on the Redondo Flyover and will soon enter BNSF trackage for the trip east to Chicago.

A warm late afternoon in the Antelope Valley along Metrolink's Valley Subdivision finds the F125 test train with SCAX 905 tied down in the set-out track near the Vincent Grade/Acton station. For t... (more)

A shot where I couldn't have asked for better timing, as the westbound Gemco Hauler passes through City of Industry with autos holding the main, power being serviced, and the Baldwin Park job buil... (more)

Crossing the Colorado River at Topock on the venerable ex-Santa Fe bridge, a westbound BNSF passenger special bound for the Super Bowl will soon be arriving Needles, CA where it will tie up for th... (more)

With Mission Tower in the distance, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief is less than a mile into its cross country journey to Chicago having just departed LAUPT. Train #4 is passing San Diego Jct. ... (more)

A few old friends in unfamiliar territory, at least to the photographers. Six 2nd generation Electro-Motive diesels including three ex-SP tunnelmotors lug a string of trona loads to be interchang... (more)

Brand new from General Electric, BNSF ET44C4 #3919 basks in the morning sunshine after being tied down in the yard at Ono located on the BNSF Cajon Subdivision a few miles railroad east of San Ber... (more)

One of Trona Railway's former Southern Pacific SD40T-2s looking right at home in the northern Mojave Desert.

Detoured Amtrak train #11 approaches the north portal of Tunnel 2 and Allard siding in the Tehachapi mountains after having met northbound train #14 just minutes before at Caliente.