Tucked into the small yard in Victorville is a local with BNSF ES44C4 8173 (and another GEVO) for power. (Victorville, California – February 15, 2024)

Climbing Cajon Pass at milepost 58 is Union Pacific train KLAG1, an intermodal train that may be operating for K-Line out of the port of Los Angeles. Union Pacific SD70M 4842, UP Dash 8-40C 9198,... (more)

Sitting in Victorville, opposite the Amtrak platforms, are a pair of BNSF Railway diesels – Dash 9-44CW 4096 and ES44C4 8203 – assigned to train R-CAL0041-14I, the Victorville Local. The cars... (more)

Amtrak's Desert Wind heads for Vegas as it rolls past Cajon.

Constructed on part of the old Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Redlands Loop, originally built on the late 1800s, is Metrolink's newest service: Arrow (named as an homage to the Inland Empire's... (more)

BNSF Railway train Z-SBDALT4-15 round the curve at Cajon Pass' Summit as it heads from nearby San Bernardino CA to Alliance TX. A quartet of BNSF locomotives - ES44C4s 7089, 6964 and 8327, plus D... (more)

Night operations on the Tehachapi Pass is a completely different world. Here a north bound manifest quickly drifts down the grade between tunnels 1 and 2 as the headlights light the right of way t... (more)

Clinging to the side of the hill, alongside Highway 58 in the upper Tehachapi mountains, a morning south bound Union Pacific intermodal battles up the steep grade and through tunnel 14 as the morn... (more)

A north bound BNSF intermodal is in the depths of a hot Tehachapi summer afternoon and the golden hillsides of the Allard horseshoe area as the trains exits the horseshoe curve and slowly works to... (more)

In the final paint scheme.

High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)

In 1987-1988, Southern Pacific closed the Modoc Line to through traffic. If the Modoc had been open, this EURGM would have been closing in on Alturas. Instead, the train is crossing Dry Canyon Via... (more)

2 units lead an eastbound Herzog train for another load at Mudrock, UT.

NS power leads a westbound Portland to Los Angeles repo train at Grand Terrece.

C means it was the third unit of the 347 consist. I wonder where the others are now...