As the sun sets in the Tehachapis, Santa Fe 8148 West splits the intermediate signals just east of the cement plant at Monolith.
ATSF SD 45 A-B-B-A units first run, Mamiya 645 color negative
Santa Fe SD45-2 5692 leads an eastbound freight through the town of Tehachapi CA. In another twenty or so miles, this train will diverge off the Southern Pacific's Tehachapi Division and be back ... (more)
A variety of diesels are seen in the Santa Fe's diesel shop at San Bernardino, California. Front and center is F45 5918, and other engines (some wrecked) include a U36C, SD45 and an SD40-2.
A solid set of Santa Fe B36-7s brings a hot piggyback train west toward Los Angeles.
An EB ATSF train sprints at the highest speed it will attain for several hours; the 2.2% grades of Tehachapi ahead will slow it down. K64, Minolta SRT 101, Rokkor 50mm f1.7
On a foggy night southeast of Stockton at milepost 1114, a target signal's green aspect turns into a beam shooting out from its lens as an eastbound freight approaches.
Santa Fe FP45 100 and a sister lead a 971 train up the 1.0 percent grade on the western slope of Franklin Canyon.
A hot 991 train passes the ex-Santa Fe depot in Stockton in pea-soup fog.
