UP 1018 waits for a westbound freight to pass before returning to Stockton Ca. with the Modesto Local.

A westbound Shasta Route train approaches Bray, California on Memorial Day weekend 1994.

This is only the fourth Amtrak train 4, the Southwest Chief, to load its initial load of passengers in Fullerton rather than Los Angeles. This was due to a four-day shutdown of the trackag... (more)

The sun rises over the early morning Pacific Surfliner, no. 770 with AMTK 2112, pushing to Los Angeles along Mondos Beach in Ventura Ca.

ATSF 3706 receives some TLC at Needles California in 1933. The 4-8-2 has an eight car Chief in tow. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A pair of westbound BNSF Railway trains descend Cajon Pass, and one overtakes the other at CP Walker. BNSF’s California Division Christmas Train, symboled O-SBDSBD2-12A, heads downgrade after r... (more)

A pair of General Electric demonstrators, GECX 2025 and 2037, sit in the small engine facility in BNSF Railway's San Bernardino A Yard. These test locomotives were either ES44AC, ES44A6, ES44C6 o... (more)

AT&SF train number 20, The Chief, is seen at Needles California in 1933. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Trailing, dead in transit on the rear, Central Railroad of Indiana RP20BD 2002 heads up the Harbor Line on its way to the Chevron Refinery in El Segundo where it will become one of two new B&W pla... (more)

Trailing, dead in transit on the rear, Central Railroad of Indiana RP20BD 2002 heads up the Harbor Line on its way to the Chevron Refinery in El Segundo where it will become one of two new B&W pla... (more)

A pair of BNSF Railway Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal "Z Trains" meet at Cajon Pass' Summit. Heading east, and on the left, is train Z-SBDWSP7-26A, heading from San Bernardino CA to Chicag... (more)

With only a week left till Christmas, BNSF and UPS are rushing their last minute packages to be delivered before Christmas morning. During "Peak Season", the railroad adds extra trains t... (more)

A San Bernardino, CA to Willow Springs, IL waste no time climbing the 1% grade of Goffs Hill as the sound of six GE motors roar pass the control point of Fenner.

A pair of SD70ACe have escaped the coal fields of Wyoming and have made their way to the Southern Transcon as they shove a Galesburg, IL to Barstow, CA manifest over Goffs Hill.

In the latter half of 2013 General Electric built a group of EF44AC 4500hp Tier 4 emissions test locomotives, painted blue and sent out to test on several railroads, including (as seen here) Union... (more)