Exercising trackage rights first hammered out by Union Pacific and BNSF predecessors (Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railway and Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe respectively) a eastbound Union Pacific stack... (more)

21 years after becoming a part of the Union Pacific Railroad, Chicago & Northwestern yellow and green finds itself on the point of a westbound unit tank train, carefully drifting down the western ... (more)

32 years…… It had been 32 years since the symphony of steam had last echoed through Soledad Canyon as former Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 returns to her home in Los Angeles after being on hand at Vince... (more)

The steam era…2016. The steam era in the United States ended in the 1950s however even all these years later several traces can still be found, both lovingly preserved and quietly forlorn. Case ... (more)

New platforms at Vincent Grade……over the last year Metrolink has brought several upgrades to their trackage and facilities at Vincent Grade/Acton, the summit of the former Southern Pacific 'Sa... (more)

Westbound double stacks drift through Kingman Canyon on BNSF's Seligman Subdivision.

Westbound tonnage climbs out of Siberia on BNSF's Needles Subdivision as a eastbound shooter slips down grade in the foreground. The colorful consist on the westbound manifest includes ES44C4 7156... (more)

As thunderheads kick up over northern New Mexico Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief splits a pair of Union Switch and Signal upper quadrant semaphore signals (7121 and 7121), west of Colmor, on BN... (more)

West of Springer, NM Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief powers out of a sag just moments before taking a clear signal from the eastern most set of surviving semaphores.

Waiting on the Chief……silhouetted against the timeless light of the moon a pair of Union Switch & Signal intermediate semaphores stand guard over BNSF's Raton Subdivision in northern New Mexic... (more)

Completed in 1904 by the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railway the cement arch bridge spanning the Santa Ana River continues to serve the line's successor, Union Pacific, well over 100 yea... (more)

Pool is cool! Road power from three class 1s come together as a pair of Union Pacific Z trains meet in Beaumont, CA. Trailing CSX and Norfolk Southern motors trail the head-end consist on the east... (more)

Leaving Utah's Weber Canyon a pair of EMDs drift through Devil's Slide with an eastbound Z train tied to the drawbar.

With Tehachapi's rolling hills still clinging to the colors of Spring a westbound loaded grain train carefully drops through Cliff on the western slope of the Tehachapi Range. Nestled down in the ... (more)

Emerging from Cache Creek Canyon an eastbound Union Pacific manifest conforms to the final slope of the Tehachapi Range before dropping down into the Mojave Desert.