Approaching a 1909 built trestle, that crosses over the Ventura river in Emma Wood State Park, this Amtrak Surliner heads north, leaving Ventura in late afternoon light in fall.

The shadows of an early morning at Keene, CA continue to shrink as the sun slowly starts to illuminate the emerald landscape and a short BNSF manifest rounding the horseshoe curve in the glamour o... (more)

Just an hour before the canyon is completely socked in by thick winter fog, the afternoon sun dimly lights the canyon floor and a BNSF south bound manifest quickly moving alongside the Caliente Cr... (more)

Clinging to the side of Cliff, the slow progress of a West Colton bound manifest can be seen climbing the grade of Tehachapi in the very early hours of a perfect spring morning. The UP train on th... (more)

A UP intermodal from the shipping port of Brooklyn, Oregon curves it's way up through Allard and into the horseshoe in the very early moments of sunlight on this perfect spring morning.

Two south bound UP manifests are seen climbing the lower Tehachapi hills, one after the other, on a warm spring morning. The train above, navigating through the shadows, is approaching Bealville a... (more)

On a wet, muggy winter afternoon, an east bound BNSF intermodal rocks and shakes the cables of the old bridge across the San Joaquin River in north Fresno. The river is overflowing, due too an ext... (more)

Perched high above tunnel 5 in the lower Tehachapi mountains on a dry spring morning, the view is of a north bound BNSF intermodal, dropping down grade around the curve at the north end of Cliff s... (more)

A BNSF manifest is climbing through the dry, barren landscape at the curves just south of Marcel siding on a hazy summer morning.

The rear DPUs of a long north bound BNSF manifest help bring their train down into the lower Tehachapi Mountains and around the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a perfect spring morning. Cloud shad... (more)

With another Tehachapi summer night underway, a south bound BNSF intermodal rumbles up grade and lights the right of way through the tight confines of the cut just below the Tehachapi Loop, while ... (more)

Rounding the reverse curve in Alta and throttling back up on the grade after receiving a clear signal is Amtrak #6 on a cold afternoon in the Sierras. The snow is beginning to melt and the red cla... (more)

A north bound UP manifest rounds the curve at Cliff and down into the Bealville area in the early light of a spring morning.

In the mid morning light of a dry spring day in the Tehachapi’s, a north bound UP intermodal drifts down the curves from tunnel 1 and into the south leg of the Caliente horseshoe.

East bound San Joaquin Amtrak races across the San Joaquin River in north Fresno under some parting skies above.