The SP 8530 East is pictured with its train of empties at Cortena siding. The SP mothballed this line several years later, eventually leasing it to the California Northern.
A trio of Super Fleet GP60Ms accelerate across the plain approaching Monolith and the summit of the Tehachapis.
A freshly painted F45 leads this eastbound consist at Woodford on a warm Spring morning in 1988.
Merger-painted SD45 #5355 leads seven other units downgrade with a COFC train. This crossing of Tehachapi Creek is at the east end of Woodford siding.
A Los Angeles-bound lumber drag grinds uphill through Woodford.
A loaded coal train toils up the steep west slope of Tennessee Pass in the early morning.
An eastbound grain empty rounding the big curve at Rich Bar.
A Union Pacific autorack train rolling through Crockett, passing beneath the Alfred Zampa bridge, then under construction.
Amador's elderly Baldwin earns its keep, bringing empties back to Martell from interchange with the UP in Ione. Sadly, this operation is defunct now.
A pair of former Grande units trundle up the Ione branch, bound for the gravel loadout at Edwin.
The McCloud-Mount Shasta turn pulling through the switchback at Signal Butte, prior to backing the rest of the way to McCloud.
As colorful a mix of motive power as you could ask for, descending through Afton Canyon in the late afternoon.
An eastbound autorack train slips through Christie in the early morning.
A typically modern consist bringing an autorack train eastbound at milepost 1175.
A mismatched pair of units work east with a merchandise train at Christie.
