The Napa garbage loads roll northbound on the Shasta Route in the summer of 1999.

A pair of GE C44ACMs bring up the rear of a westbound intermodal passing through Modesto.

Union Pacific local LRS99 waits to return to Stockton Ca.

Union Pacific light power going eastbound through Barstow station

Faded glory. Former ATSF 645 leads an Eastbound out of Wasco, CA.

UP 9067 receives a signal during a long twilight exposure at Sandcut.

UP 6160 drops downgrade between Cliff and Bealville on the Tehachapi Pass.

Far from the lush greenery of the East Coast, NS 4572 pulls a BNSF empty oil train out of the siding at Bealville on the Tehachapi Pass.

Green hills, puffy clouds and nice light combine to set the scene for BNSF 5922 as the train climbs towards Bealville on Tehachapi Pass.

A Southbound welded rail train pulls through Bealville.

Union Pacific train 717, the Los Angeles Challenger, is seen in Los Angeles at Pasadena Junction in 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A southbound Union Pacific freight sits in Mojave, on UP’s Mojave Sub. This train is powered by a quartet of SD70ACe locomotives: UP 8465, 8500, 8482 and 8455. In the distance is a Burlington ... (more)

A constant parade of short-distance passenger trains (Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners and Metrolink's commuter trains) passing through Fullerton, California, is broken up by only one pair of lo... (more)

An eastbound meets a westbound at East Ash Hill.

BNSF ES44DC 7817 leads a short Z train downhill towards Ludlow.