UP's business train passes through Gaviota in the late evening on a trip up the Coast Line.

A UP business special heads through Seacliff bound for Oakland.

Eastbound doublestack coming from Sherman Hill near Granite, with SD70ACe # 8874, SD70M # 3913 and SD70M # 3874.

Late in the day an eastbound moves through scenic Echo Canyon.

Eastbound union Pacific Z rounds the bluffs along interstate 84 and the Columbia River at the mouth of the Deschutes River

Leaving Utah's Weber Canyon a pair of EMDs drift through Devil's Slide with an eastbound Z train tied to the drawbar.

A UP Public Affairs special deadheads toward Laredo, TX behind some clean EMD and GE power as it passes a northbound in the hole at Gardendale. The Eagle Ford oil/gase shale of this area is alive... (more)

A Union Pacific passenger train running from Houston to Oakland crosses over the gouge carved out by Gaviota Creek as it makes its way north along the ocean side cliffs.

A Houston to Oakland business train deadhead move heads north into Ventura behind a pair of new "Heavies" of both EMD and GE origin for power.

An officer's special from Houston to Oakland heads through Van Nuys at high speed as my one-time-railfan son watches it pass.

Union Pacific sent a beautiful train to the California coast. The Houston to Oakland passenger special greets the Coastline on a beautiful Indian Summer day.

A UP office car train heads south toward Laredo, TX on the namesake Laredo Sub for a week of public relations duty, seen here at Cotulla, finally seeing the sun after 60 miles of clouds.