A fresh painted UP 6486 leads eastbound stacks at Fingal on a very windy morning in the low desert.

UP 2560 leads a 5 unit westbound Z down San Timoteo Canyon.

A crummy UP leads a trio of pool units on a westbound Z at El Casco.

UP 7261 in new paint leads a westbound ZG4CI just west of El Casco.

I hesitated uploading a long hood shot but this is a good study of a classic unit from the business end. I loved SP's wonderful variety.

A westbound manifest heads downgrade at El Casco in San Timoteo Canyon.

A contractor fuels the locomotives on the "Shasta Daylight 1990" special at Redding, California. The train would soon move into the passenger depot to entrain passengers for the return t... (more)

A Swift RoadRailer train rolls southward through the Sacramento River Canyon.

The only train of the week on this section of the Modoc Line passes the Northwest Intertie near Perez, California.

A Los Angeles transfer job pulls power and and containers from LATC and onto the River Sub.

As a kid I remember seeing this modern fueling and sanding complex at SP's Roseville Yard in Trains Magazine. It was amazing to finally see it in person, looking more like a launching pad complex ... (more)

A quintet of UP GP38-2s lead by UP 2049 idle the night away at the Argo Yard engine facility in Seattle in the company of a couple NW2s and a few cabooses. In the mid 1970s the slogan "Depend... (more)

Three years after Southern Pacific was acquired by Union Pacific, a westbound manifest rolls down the Shasta Route.

UP 8522 in new paint leads an eastbound just east of Ordway as it works up Beaumont Hill.

Under the control of a single GEVO, a San Antonio train for the Harbor pulls of the UP Alhambra Sub and onto Metrolink's River Sub on its way to the Alameda Corridor.