Basking in the sun at Bakersfield while waiting for its next assignment. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Southern Pacific Railroad SD70M 9809 was built by General Motors Locomotive Group in June 1994, one of 25 of these locomotives acquired by the SP. This fleet proved to be a great purchase by the ... (more)

Parked on the whiskers of the turntable in Southern Pacific’s Bakersfield yard are a pair of consecutively numbered Denver & Rio Grande Western GP35s: 3044 and 3045. What were the odds? By th... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway CF7 2500 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as ATSF F7A 343L (one of the railway's freight F-Units) in April 1953. As the 1960s were ending, Sa... (more)

San Joaquin Valley Railroad GP38-2 3818, looking a bit ragged due to all the graffiti adorning it, was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in November 1973 as Colorado & Western 2001. ... (more)

BNSF Railway Yard Job Y-BAK2071-08G switches cars in the Bakersfield Yard. BNSF Dash 8-40BW 533, seen on the eastern end of the yard, is the former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 533, purchased for t... (more)

Union Pacific 3132 idles in the Bakersfield yard the day after Thanksgiving. It appears this engine could use a trip to the paint booth.

"Banana" prepares to depart with San Joaquin Service train #703.

UP 9067 receives a signal during a long twilight exposure at Sandcut.

Southern Pacific train 51, the San Joaquin, is seen at Bakersfield California in 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Through The Fields Of Bakersfield. On the scorching hot afternoon of July 23, 2020, Amtrak/Amtrak California Train 719 is seen underway on the 6 hour northbound run to Oakland, California. ... (more)

Five Santa Fe Alco S4s sit by the roads Roundhouse in September 1976 these units lasted a while longer because i got to see them again in Chicago in 1979

Southern Pacific 7560 and Conrail 6606 idle in the Bakersfield diesel service a few days after Thanksgiving.

A dark and quiet Sunday night is brought to life by BNSF Southbound train H FRSBAR.

The city lights of Bakersfield silhouette the cut at Sandcut as the EOT of a Northbound UP train rounds the last curve of the Tehachapi Pass, before reaching Bakersfield.