Fourteen years after the UP/SP merger what’s the chance of seeing a lash up like this? This is UP’s daily westbound manifest train on the ex D&RGW, the MNYRO. The two trailing SD60’s are Dir... (more)

Prior to beginning their day switching the yard in Guadalupe, UP 1011 and 1499 catch the morning light as they rest on the house track. The ironic part in 1011's presence here is that it was selec... (more)

After waiting for after waiting in depo 4, the power move crossed the Steel Bridge, heading south before reversing and crossing the main. I was able to catch it on the approach to Albina Yard for ... (more)

Becoming increasingly rare, former SP 321 leads a power move from Lake Yard to Albina Yard as it passes the Lake Transfer and Union Station.

The many SD´s imported to Brazil to supply traction at many RR Companies (metric or large gauge), photographed at Santos Harbour awaiting transfer to Progress Rail and rebuilt to all RR Co.

Hastily patched ex-SSW GP60 1004 and two other UP GP60s pick their way down Quint Street in San Francisco, on their way to the SF Bay RR yard to pick up "dirty dirt" empties.

The Rocklin Rocket. Historically, trains have names. Classics such as the "California Zephyr" and "Super Chief" live in American folklore. Today, most trains are known... (more)

Union Pacific 1004 shuts down Industrial Avenue while it works HB Fuller Company in North Roseville. HB Fuller "is a major American adhesives manufacturing company supplying industrial adhesi... (more)

Union Pacific 1004, one of the last remaining GP60s still sporting the Cotton Belt name, accelerates southbound down the Valley Subdivision at Binney Junction.

The St. Louis and Southwestern Railroad served the southern United States for 101 years. With mainlines connecting Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, this railroad became known as the “Cotton Belt”... (more)

It is no secret the UP Valley Subdivision between Binney Junction and the Roseville Yard is busy, really busy. Trains from the Feather River Route (Highway 70 corridor) and the Shasta Route (Inter... (more)

After setting out a unit and wying at Global 4, Patched Cotton Belt 1158 (formerly 1943) leads the local back south at Arsenal Rd north of Elwood.

A former Cotton Belt veteran brings the North local across the Kankakee River in Wilmington.

Leaving Oakland Yard after the evening commuter rush,an Ex Cotton Belt GP60 rolls long hood forward past Jack London Square with some boxes and gons.