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...

The Niles Canyon Railway yard in Brightside, Ca. With it's panoply of engines, one can still feel what it was like to work with one of those horses.

GOFFS CA Sept 8 1983 — ATSF C30-7 8091 accelerates under a mostly sunny sky. GE built the unit (s/n 42402) in May 1979 with an air conditioning unit mounted in the nose, 74:18 gear ratio and pai... (more)

Just after 7am finds UP 5253 working upgrade into San Timoteo Canyon at Ordway.

MWCNP power heads down to it's train at West Colton.

UP's Los Angeles to Atlanta Z passes Pepper Ave at West Colton.

UP 3088 leads an eastbound between Redlands and Ordway.

One of the last patched SP AC4400's leads an eastbound ZLAMQ as it nears the top of the climb up Beaumont Hill.

A long south bound BNSF manifest slowly rounds the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a cold winter morning in the Tehachapi mountains as a heavy central California valley fog is seen off in the dist... (more)

With fluffy white clouds slowly drifting through the sky above and casting big shadows across the green landscape, the DPU of a south bound UP intermodal slowly pushes up through the Caliente cany... (more)

A quartet of grimy Southern Pacific SDs roll through the Devil's Garden. This area is a lava flow created by eruptions of nearby Mount Shasta.

A colorful group of Union Pacific SD70ACe locomotives was found in the railroad's Dolores Yard on this October day: UP 1996 (their Southern Pacific Heritage unit, and the former UP 8523), UP 1988... (more)

Southbound San Joaquin 710 speeds through Riverbank CA January 11th. 2024