With the mountain again clear after a early morning run west to Shed 10, Union Pacific's 'lead' spreader set drifts through Soda Springs, following closely behind the 'broken wing' spreader. The s... (more)

Nestled within the Searles Valley between the Argus and Slate mountain ranges lays the vast Searles Lake. Tapping the mineral rich wealth of the dry lake, where 98 of the 104 known chemical elemen... (more)

In 1899 facing the threat of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway completing their own link between northern and southern California via the Tehachapi range the Southern Pacific Railroad neg... (more)

Filled by the sound of howling dynamics and the warm colors of a desert sunrise amidst the crisp mountain air another morning dawns at the foot of the Tehachapi Mountains meeting an eastbound BNSF... (more)

The old guard at Walonger…… On September 11th, 1996 the vast empire of the Southern Pacific Railroad was folded into the camp of their age old ally and rival, the Union Pacific. Since that tim... (more)

Beginning in 1956 the Southern Pacific Railroad began major upgrades to their premier Sunset Route between Colton, CA and Yuma, AZ. These upgrades would focus on both ends of the 'Yuma Main' in tw... (more)

Searchlights below sea-level... As the sun climbs above the horizon in southern California's Coachella Valley a westbound Union Pacific hotshot sails passed the Union Switch & Signal searchlight i... (more)

On November 17th, 2014 the final chapter of Union Switch & Signal searchlight signals on Tehachapi was closed when the last signals between Warren and Mojave, on the eastern slope, were retired in... (more)

With leased BNSF AC4400 5615 leading the charge, Los Angeles bound commute 262 sails out of Palmdale and slips passed the UP Mojave Sub-SCAX Valley Sub connector at Palmdale Junction-Harold. The l... (more)

Laboring up the eastern slope of the Tehachapi grade Union Pacific's westbound MWCFR approaches the 'three amigos' searchlight installation at Warren. Strategically placed to serve the CTC ruled m... (more)

Pomona remembers the Espee…as a westbound hotshot leaves Pomona on Union Pacific's, former Southern Pacific, Alhambra Subdivision it approaches a Union Switch & Signal searchlight installation a... (more)

UP…blue is your color! Still sharply dressed in its 2002-Winter Olympic commemorative paint scheme Union Pacific SD70M 2002, one of two so painted SD70s, still proudly recalls Salt Lake City, Ut... (more)

'A Proud Heritage'…… Proud Heritage is a portion of Union Pacific's stance on its heritage program and has been in the public eye for over a decade now, truthfully the statement goes much furt... (more)

By the late 1950s the final chapter had been written for mainline steam in North America, with only a few exceptions, lines of dead steam locomotives awaited the scrapper's torch across the countr... (more)

Arizona & California….in Arizona and California. Departing Parker, AZ westbound A&C train 708, bound for interchange with the BNSF at Cadiz, crosses the impressive ex-Santa Fe bridge across the ... (more)