The all-EMD helper on today's Oil Cans roars through the east end of Bealville as it pushes the 10,000-ton train up the steep grade and tight curves on this part of Tehachapi.

Three westbound freights line up nicely for servicing at the west end of Clovis Yard. The photo was taken from the Hull Street overpass, which has since been replaced by a new structure.

What looks to be a westbound intermodal train detoured from the Coast Line to the Valley Line makes its way down the severe reverse curves at Caliente.

An all-EMD helper assists the lead power in lifting a 10,000-ton BKDOU around the Loop. Below the power is tunnel 9.

With a face faded with use, FP45 No. 5993 leads a Santa Fe eastbound up the tortuous grade at tunnel 2. In a few years, this same locomotive will once again where the red & silver. In the distance... (more)

Not long after being repainted back into the red & silver, a pair of FP45s leads a Santa Fe 589 train up the steep grade out of Mojave, CA, on Tehachapi's southeastern slope. The smoke here is com... (more)

SP SD7 No. 2704 and mates wait for permission from the Valley-Mountain dispatcher in Bakersfield to head light down the mountain after helping an eastbound manifest. Many of SP's SD7s were deliver... (more)

Venerable SP SW1500 No. 2689 sits in the Roseville Shops awaiting repairs. In the last half of the 1980s, SP began removing all oscillating Gyralites from its locomotives. The reason? The FRA had ... (more)

SP 8486 East, with plenty of power up front, passes the Mormon Rocks on the western slope of Cajon Pass. The train is using the Palmdale-Colton Cut-off, which SP built in the 1960s to bypass the c... (more)

An eastbound APL stack train from the Port of Oakland roars out of tunnel 8 onto the North Fork Bridge in the heart of California's Feather River Canyon. The tunnel and the big concrete bridge wer... (more)

Late in the day, SP 9354 West takes the original, outside track at Yuba Gap on the Donner Pass line. The newer, second main track, which tunnels through granite here, was built in the early 20th c... (more)

Westbound Erie-Lackawanna freight train powered by E8A no. 824 and three mates at Akron, Indiana, on June 28, 1975. During its final years, the E-L relegated many of its passenger-geared E-units t... (more)

The ill-fated Aerotrain leaves the station enroute to Pittsburgh, The train began running on the PRR in February, 1956 and continued for nine months.

CP's Assiniboia Tramp heads home with a grain pickup train from Coronach Sask on the Fife Lake Subdivision. Currently this subdivision is operated by short line Great Western

An eastbound BN train works through a through truss bridge and by a pair of classic signals at Mandan, ND on July 6, 1980. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund and courtesy of the more)