Amtrak's Phase I heritage unit leads the PRS passenger special back to Los Angeles after concurring Tehachapi Pass.

Battling up the steep grade along the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a trio of Union Pacific locomotives rumble through the ski resort town of Truckee pulling a high priority interm... (more)

It's the first day of spring along Tehachapi Pass and the hills are green while a rain storm dumps water over the pass. Yet, this doesn't some trains from moving; only the dispatcher does! Which i... (more)

Hard at Work The engineer of the BNSF 7283 East is focus on control his nearly 9,000 ton Barstow, CA to Kansas City, KS manifest down the grade of Goffs Hill. Lucky for him, he is only abou... (more)

BNSF's Christmas train descends down the Arizona Divide, near Flagstaff, after spending the weekend in Southern California. Just the day before, Flagstaff received 5.3 inches of snow.

BNSF's Christmas train kicks up fresh powder at Bellemont on the western slope of the Arizona Divide on its eastward journey to Topeka, KS.

Snow flurries continue to fall on a cold December morning in northern Arizona as a hot Z-train bound for San Bernardino, CA slowly exists Crozier Canyon.

A snow storm has hit the northwestern region of Arizona during the early morning of December 14. Here, a westbound CSX interchanged stack train slowly makes its way out of Crozier Canyon on main t... (more)

A heavy loaded ethanol train rumbles out of the sag near Williams on its westward journey down the Arizona Divide.

The first northbound train for the Grand Canyon navigates its way out of Williams on a bright spring morning in Arizona's high country.

Rain continues to fall on a late April evening as the Grand Canyon Railway's steam locomotive, 4960, races south through Red Lake, Ariz. on its return trip from the Grand Canyon.

After concurring over the 7,335 foot high summit of the Arizona Divide, a Long Beach, CA to Clovis, NM stack train slowly makes its way into Winslow Yard, where a fresh crew will take over for the... (more)

What a rare sight in the year 2014, a GE standard cab locomotive leading a train on the transcon! I got the heads up while in class about a trio of CSX units leading a Memphis, TN to Los Angeles H... (more)

One of CSX's new locomotives, the General Electric ES44T4, leads a CSX interchanged in Chicago to Los Angeles stack train out of Crozier Canyon on a fine December day in northern Arizona.

Bad Moon Rising...As the moon slowly rises in the eastern sky, a hot Willow Springs,IL to Stockton, CA UPS/LTL high priority intermodal train races up the 1.5 percent grade of the Arizona D... (more)