Amidst the charred landscape on the western slope of Cajon Pass a monster westbound BNSF stack train carefully drops down grade with its head end approaching Pine Lodge on the former 'north track'... (more)

Westbound double stacks drift through Kingman Canyon on BNSF's Seligman Subdivision.

Westbound tonnage climbs out of Siberia on BNSF's Needles Subdivision as a eastbound shooter slips down grade in the foreground. The colorful consist on the westbound manifest includes ES44C4 7156... (more)

Afternoon at the Museum

A Massachusetts Bay Transit Agency Kinki-Sharyo Type 7 trolley approaches the Green Line E line's Museum of Fine Arts station on the last day of summer, Septe... (more)

Short and Fast

Just two days before Christmas 1978, a hot Santa Fe intermodal train climbs the eastern grade of the Tehachapi Mountain crossing as it approaches Monolith. This train... (more)

Top of the Loop

A Santa Fe westbound freight rounds the Tehachapi Loop on September 4, 1978. The crew aboard SD45-2 5653 will shortly pass underneath the rear section of their train ... (more)

A Straight Shot to Bakersfield

A westbound Santa Fe intermodal train escapes from a stormy crossing of southern California's Tehachapi Mountains on March 8, 1992. Powered by SD45 53... (more)

Only Two Units? How Very Un-SP-Like!

A Southern Pacific westbound train arrives at the railroad's West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, on January 5, 1980. SP SD40T-2 8529 a... (more)

A Typical 1992 Union Pacific Consist

A westbound Union Pacific freight rounds the curve at the east end of Cajon, in the heart of southern California's Cajon Pass. Led by UP C30-7 2... (more)

Ch-Ch-Changes

A westbound Santa Fe freight passes the small yard in Fullerton, California, in February 1974. Santa Fe kept local switchers here, mainly Alco S-2 and S-4 diesels, but... (more)

Cotton Belt Incognito

Southern Pacific SD45T-2 9392, SP SD45 7477 and a Cotton Belt GP60 lead a westbound manifest through Union Pacific's Puente Junction in the City of Industry, Ca... (more)

A New Face for the Santa Fe

Santa Fe SD45 5394 was the first locomotive painted in the "Kodachrome" scheme for the ill-fated Southern Pacific Santa Fe merger. When original... (more)

Traffic Jam at Devil's Canyon

At the eastern end of Canyon Diablo, Arizona, proof that the Santa Fe's Transcon route really does run trains like streetcars. As a westbound, led by S... (more)

Southern California Hotspot ... Once Upon a Time

About ten years from retirement, Southern Pacific SD45 9007 leads a westbound freight toward the crossing of the Santa Fe's mainline ... (more)

The Only Way to Fly!

The Southern Pacific's crossing of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in northern California is spectacular, and riding Amtrak's California Zephyr is a sp... (more)