Former Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 takes a well deserved rest after returning to LA from the 2011 San Bernardino railroad days event. Much like a movie star is surrounded by the paparazzi, soon after arri... (more)

UP 1983, 1996, & 1995 lead the KG1LA-09 into Swarthout Cyn, Blue Cut area on BNSF's Cajon Sub.

From the dawn of the diesel era to the early 1990s EMD was king on Southern Pacific's Sierra Crossing between Roseville, CA and Sparks, NV. By the mid-90s new Southern Pacific General Electric AC4... (more)

As the water of the Rio de los Pinos gentle meanders down stream a pair of Rio Grande Baldwin built K-36s march up stream with a 'Chama Steam' photo charter freight near Los Pinos, CO. Both locomo... (more)

Weaving through the golden Cuesta Hills three big road motors contend with gravity as they lift the westbound 'oil cans' up Cuesta grade on California's Central Coast. Cuesta has always been the m... (more)

Amtrak Cascade F59PHi #466 glides along the Mojave Sub near Ansel with train #11X. This Coast Starlight set is making a deadhead move from San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles after a mudslide closed th... (more)

Western Pacific still lives in the famed Feather river canyon. Here WP 2001 skirts the waters of the Feather river as it makes its way to Oroville. Again the calm, windless morning provides a calm... (more)

54" for Norden…between 00:00 on Monday January 9th and 00:00 Tuesday January 10th 54" of fresh snow fell at Norden at the top of Union Pacific's Sierra crossing. While not the most sno... (more)

Five EMD SD70 variants hustle a eastbound 'K' train through the curves at the west end of Point of Rocks. Just below image center is the 'grave of the unknown'. This quiet gravesite is the resting... (more)

Emerging from Cache Creek Canyon an eastbound Union Pacific manifest conforms to the final slope of the Tehachapi Range before dropping down into the Mojave Desert.

Drifting down 'stream' through the Colorado Rockies a 17 car Union Pacific executive special is led by a pair of 'heavies', representing both EMD and GE, near Burns, CO on the Dotsero Cutoff. This... (more)

UP 1996 prepares for the tough climb ahead as it passes through "downtown" Caliente. Soon the Espee heritage unit & the 5 trailing GEs (3 DPUs) will be dragging the 500 + axels of the QRVWCB up th... (more)

SP 4449 now on its return trip to Portland emerges from the west portal of tunnel 5, located at MP 69 on BNSF's Fallbridge Sub.

Looking sharp following display at North Platte, Nebraska's rail fest event UP 1983, Western Pacific heritage, leads westbound tonnage out of Rawlins, WY and towards the continental divide.

The peaceful calm of a spring morning in the Tehachapi pass is shattered by four hard working GE motors as they do battle with the stiff grades and seemingly endless number of curves that rule the... (more)