The conductor of Union Pacific train LOA32, the Costa Mesa Local, waves to students walking to the Olive Street Elementary School as the train rolls at 5 miles-per-hour down the center of ... (more)

A wreck on the Southern Pacific in Arizona has necessitated some of their hotter trains to detour on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe in order to reach southern California. SP SD45R 7498 (ex-SP SD4... (more)

New Union Pacific GE ET44AC No. 2617 powers a UP Office Car Special through the verdant Tehachapi Mountains of California at the west switch of Bealville on February 29, 2016. The short three-car ... (more)

With all the torrential rain California has received in the last two weeks, the Coast route was shut down due to bridge damage and other issues around Honda (near Vandenberg SFB). Lucky for us, th... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific manifest highballs Castle Crag siding in the Sacramento River Canyon.

UP 2002, commemorative unit for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games, leads a westbound auto train towards Speer Jct. as it continues the climb over Sherman Hill on the Main Track 3 side o... (more)

UP grain train runs downhill in the Sullivan's Curve.

And eastbound intermodal passes former Southern Pacific Station under renovation in downtown Modesto Ca.

A pair of clean UP units from both GE and EMD lead a Mira Loma bound auto train westbound at Highgrove.

Two brand new SD70Ms roll a lumber drag through the west end of Dunsmuir Yard on a perfect summer morning.

A westbound departs Castle Crag siding near Dunsmuir, passing one of the last wig-wags in Shasta County, California.

The visual cues in the photograph provide no clue that this is a Union Pacific train. In January 1997, a flood detour heads south on the Modoc Line, beginning the climb out of the Madeline Plains.... (more)

A Southbound Union Pacific intermodal train pulls hard through Bealville.

UP 6327, former SP AC440CW 284 charges upgrade out of Caliente about 30 minutes before sunrise.

Southbound Union Pacific ES44AC no. 2266, Holds the siding for the passing of northbound Amtrak California Pacific Surfliner No. 777 to San Luis Obispo.