UP #4014 works eastbound through Cajon in the shadow of the San Gabriel mountains with the Rail Giants excursion bound for Barstow.

Six SD40-2 variants lead the westbound Trona interchange train into Searles Jct. In the foreground are empty hoppers on the stub-ended UP Lone Pine branch awaiting pickup.

Six SD40-2 variants lead the westbound Trona interchange train near Spangler, CA on a beautiful Fall afternoon in the Mojave desert.

Union Pacific's Big Boy leads the westbound excursion down the Palmdale cutoff through Mormon Rocks.

Union Pacific's Big Boy leads the westbound excursion over the Frost crossover near Victorville, CA on it's return trip to Colton.

West Tennessee's T92 job (Fulton turn) cruises through the farmland of western Tennessee on it's return trip to Jackson, TN with a pair of former Burlington Northern C30-7's.

CSXT's "Honoring Our Law Enforcement" unit leads Q693-25 across the trestle over Lake James (Catawba River) near Marion, NC.

Clinchfield 800 leads the Heritage Highball from New Haven, KY to Ravenna, KY across Red River trestle near Mina station, KY.

Clinchfield 800 leads the Heritage Highball from New Haven, KY to Ravenna, KY across the trestle at Howard Creek.

123 slowly works eastbound down the famed loops of the Southern Railway between Old Fort and Ridgecrest, NC.

Q693-05 passes the remains of a derailed Q692.

E52 cruises across the calm waters of Chocowinity Bay on this Spring morning bound for the Nutrien mine at Aurora, NC.

NS #1800 glides along the banks of the French Broad river at Squaw Valley near Del Rio, TN with train 123 (Decatur, IL-Linwood, NC) in tow.

UP #8089 leads empties down the Pleasant Valley Sub as they approach the flood loader at Skyline (Eccles Canyon).

UP #4014 and #844 accelerate eastbound out of Evanston at Willis with the return trip from Ogden, UT.