The sounds of EMD motors roar with life as two heavy buckets moves up Logan Hill, heading for Bill.

With fog covering most of the pass and the town of Tehachapi, a break in the clouds open for light as the southbound Brooklyn heads down to Mojave.

A stormy day along Tehachapi Pass makes it for a long day for both crews and for dispatcher LMC. With trains stalling at Cliff, she has her hands full of keeping hot Z trains moving, heavy freight... (more)

Hard at Work The engineer of the BNSF 7283 East is focus on control his nearly 9,000 ton Barstow, CA to Kansas City, KS manifest down the grade of Goffs Hill. Lucky for him, he is only abou... (more)

Every once in awhile, you'll have some good luck... Numerous times on this trip to NAU's orientation, my father and I stopped to photograph trains. Waiting up to two hours to catch one trai... (more)

Four locomotives are the middle DPs on a "mega" empty coal train as the train descends down into Keenesburg. These "mega" empty trains are two coal train that are combined toge... (more)

A 12 hour late Amtrak Southwest Chief resulted in a daylight run over the Arizona Divide as it rolls into Flagstaff for a station stop.

The DPU of the KMNOA slowly moves up the street in Jack London as people wait for the train to pass by.

UP 4014 runs along Highway 26 on the South Morrill Sub after passing through the town of Oshkosh, NE.

UP 844 leads its special all around the Southwest and now, it pulls its train up the famous Cajon Pass for the first time in 22 years with the sun finding a break in the clouds just at the right t... (more)

The morning sun hits the nose of the BNSF 7540 as it emerges out of Nelson Tunnel. Nelson Tunnel is the only double track tunnel built by the Santa Fe. With the triple track project of Cajon Pass,... (more)

For those who do not know, I live around the Port of Los Angeles area. A lot of the trains out of the LA area come from the harbor bound for Chicago and other stations. I trave... (more)

A 91 line Metrolink train charges through Placentia as it takes its passengers to San Bernardino and all stops in between.

A high priority Z intermodal train bound for the NS railroad makes its way down the Arizona Divide as it passes Darling with a baretable train passing on track one.

An eastbound Los Angeles, CA to Atlanta, GA Z7 makes its way out of Darling on an unusual cool winter day.