It’s late on a warm Fall afternoon, as a southbound UP grainer quickly crosses the San Joaquin river. The continuing work to build the high speed rail bridge over the river can be seen behind bo... (more)

Back in the days when borrowed/old power was seen more often on the hill. Nearing the end of it's journey across the mountain, this BNSF intermodal is rounding the sweeping curve at Cameron Canyon... (more)

Pushing the rear of it's Fresno manifest south up the Tehachapi's on a warm summer morning at Marcel.

Echoing GE locomotives, from a very long BNSF stack train, roar through the green hills of Tehachapi climbing the grade in early morning light, above the Tehachapi loop at Marcel. The upper elevat... (more)

During many attempts to capture the Milky way over the Tehachapi Loop this past summer, I came away with numerous images like this. A meet is taking place with a northbound slowing to a stop on th... (more)

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.

Deep within the trees of the Sierra foothills, faded armour yellow and warn out UP wings catch the last rays of afternoon sunlight as an east bound manifest, bound for Roper, UT, blasts out of a t... (more)

One of the greenest seasons I've ever seen in the Tehachapi's was back in February 2016, after a ton of rainfall dropped on the mountain that January, and then in early February there was a lot of... (more)

A southbound BNSF flat car train of containers circles the horseshoe curve in Caliente in the mid-morning hours of a winter day.

In the sizzle heat of summer down the San Joaquin Valley, a job on UP rails, by the SJVR, finds this southbound grainer approaching the Avenue 7 overpass on their way to the UP yard just a few mil... (more)

It's difficult to not get identical looking scenes all through the higher Sierras with such a high amount of pine trees all around the UP main lines. Here an eastbound empty grainer climbs the num... (more)

Amtrak 5 approaches Tunnel 18 on a late afternoon in early autumn.

Descending the grade at Emigrant Gap on a freshly fallen snow morning and approaching the start of double track for the rest of the trip down into Roseville.

BNSF DPUs help bring their manifest slowly down the Tehachapi's in the mid morning of a spring day.

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.