Crossing over Briggs Road between the orchards and freshly plowed fields of the Heritage valley, Sierra Railroad RB20bBD No. 2666 with a movement of 50 Covered Hoppers that were stored in the Sa... (more)

BNSF GE ES44C4 8026 leads and eastbound local freight through Modesto.

A south bound UP QRVWC manifest climbs up and around the Tehachapi Loop and by a holding north bound BNSF intermodal all under a dramatic sky.

Union Pacific local LRS99 rolls through Ceres Ca.

Sierra Railroad RB20bBD No. 2666 with a movement of 50 Covered Hoppers that were stored in the Santa Paula yard. They are bound for Saticoy for interchange with Union Pacific and another storage... (more)

A year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a train on the Shasta Route does not display any indication of the change.

A rapidly moving winter storm is moving eastward across the Mojave Desert. Dramatic clouds were forming just as quickly as the sun would start to set behind them. The potential of dramatic lightin... (more)

UP 7776 hustles a southbound manifest along Hwy 99 near McFarland.

Southbound San Joaquin 710 sprints through Modesto.

New Knoxville Locomotive Works unit for A.L.Gilbert at Keyes, CA. Not sure of a model for this unit.

San Joaquin 710 at Hughson Ca.

A trio of SD40-2s, plus an SD45, grind upgrade to get a Union Pacific freight out of San Bernardino and over Cajon Pass. One-month-old UP SD40-2 3730 leads this train as it passes through Verdemo... (more)

A former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway baggage car, demoted to Maintenance of Way service and renumbered ATSF 205998, sits in Devore, and the base of Cajon Pass. (Devore, California – Marc... (more)

This trackage, threading between a stand of palm trees and a row of eucalyptus, is Union Pacific's San Pedro Subdivision. It was, before the UP acquired the Southern Pacific, the UP's mainline to ... (more)

A fleet of afternoon westbound trains in San Timoteo Canyon on 3/11 continued with UP 5700 west leading westbound symbol ISILB2.