With a train of colorful containers highlighting the numerous power robbing curves up the western slope of Beaumont Hill, also known as San Timoteo Canyon, an eastbound Union Pacific stack train s... (more)

Lumbering down what remains of Santa Fe's Second District of their former Los Angeles Division BNSF's westbound Pasadena Local is bound for the Milller-Coors brewery in Irwindale, CA. While en rou... (more)

Wide winging at Yuba Pass… After battling blizzard conditions the previous two days on the Sierra finally a break in the weather greets Union Pacific's snow fighters as they dig out Union Pacifi... (more)

As the final trace of daylight saturates the lingering clouds over the summit of the high Sierra Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr passes through Soda Springs, just west of Norden. Even running... (more)

Throttling out of town to the beat of two non turbo-ed 645s, passing the icicle clad eaves of the old Truckee depot, a westbound flanger is making a 'Fulda flip'.

On a beautiful winter's afternoon near the top of Donner Pass a westbound Union Pacific double stack train approaches Norden as the dense Sierra fog begins to roll in. Looming over the scene and a... (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)

After a morning 'Fulda flip' an eastbound flanger returns to Truckee, passing through the snow caked pine groves near the old SP station of Cisco.

Winter professionals prevail…… After a long day on the hill Union Pacific's spreaders come home to Truckee after having returned the flow of commerce to Union Pacific's Sierra Crossing. After ... (more)

Snow fighting across a continuous ridge…… When selling his crossing of the Sierra to Central Pacific's 'Big Four' Theodore Judah promoted the idea that his railroad would follow a continuous r... (more)

With Arizona's Dome Valley behind it a hotshot Union Pacific Z train sails passed MP 766.5, west of Wellton, AZ on Union Pacific's Gila Subdivision. This portion of the former Southern Pacific 'Su... (more)

Ghosts of the 'Wobbly'….Deep within the Feather River Canyon a pair of Union Switch & Signal intermediate searchlights stand guard at MP273, today this is Union Pacific's Canyon Subdivision, how... (more)

With the upper reaches of Tehachapi's western slope blanketed in a yet undisturbed dusting of snow the labored roar of eastbound tonnage, battling up the mountain, reverberates through the quiet w... (more)

A westbound empty rail train slithers through the curves above Warren on the eastern slope of the Tehachapi grade, just as the railroad enters Cache Creek Canyon. For the next five miles the railr... (more)

North Star and semaphores… Under the watchful gaze of the North Star a pair of near century old Union Switch & Signal upper quadrant semaphores stand a silent guard along BNSF's Raton Subdivisio... (more)