Southern Pacific trains meet on the Shasta Route at Upton siding during August 1988.

Less than an hour from a crew change at Dunsmuir, a hot intermodal train is westbound on the Shasta Route near Mount Shasta.

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)

Competitors getting along together. UP's number has been modified on one side. The ATSF units are probably helpers.

The now-daylighted tunnel witnesses another EB UP behind yet another SD40-2.

Rolling toward Los Angeles is a Union Pacific double-stack train being pulled by UP Dash 8-40C 9129, teamed with a pair of SD60s and two more Dash 9-40Cs. (Ontario, California – March 1988)

A short Guadalupe local rolls down the Santa Barbara Subdivision to Gemco yard in Los Angeles. New paving and new painted spaces for Rv parking along the ocean at the Rincon are underway for th... (more)

A Fort Worth to West Colton manifest is led by a freshly rebuilt DC to AC UP GE.

The morning sun slowly peaks the hills of Allard, burning off a fog layer, as a south bound Union Pacific intermodal from Brooklyn, Oregon, climbs the grade around the horseshoe, in and out of the... (more)

Nearing the summit of Beaumont Hill, a Forth Worth to West Colton manifest is knuckles down, screaming for air, as it grinds through Banning with Little San Gorgonio Mountain in the background.

A westbound freight is shaking the ground as it roars eastbound. Looks that that second unit was in the wrong place and the wrong time some time ago. It's April and the chill precludes Blue Cut'... (more)

Northbound Union Pacific AC4400CW no 6612 leads a northbound Guadalupe Local through Faria Beach into the setting sun.

Late in the afternoon, Union Pacific train LOG16R 14, technically the 7400 Zone Switcher out of Mead, but popularly called the Vopak Switcher, navigates the S-curve at the north end ... (more)

Switching cars at Union Pacific's Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF), in Long Beach adjacent to their Dolores Yard, are UP SD40M-2 2664 (for all intents and purposes and SD45) and an SD... (more)

Meandering one of many "S" curves of Donner Pass, former SP 119 now UP 6223 lead an eastbound autorack train up the West Slope.