BNSF 8053 races east on a cold and frosty morning at Monolith.
Nevada Northern's ten wheeler rolls south just after sunrise across the fill at Steptoe Creek on the High Line.
Fillmore & Western's ex-Duluth and Northeastern 2-8-0 #14 barks upgrade as it crosses Sespe Creek and nears the crossing at Grand Avenue just out of town.
Now nearing the exit of the Caliente Creek Narrows, BNSF 7066 and 6 more of Warren Buffet's workhorses begin to dig into the grade which they will face for the next several miles before they crest... (more)
BNSF 7885 leads a manifest through Cameron.
BNSF 6693 shoves on the rear of an eastbound stack as it worms through the eastern end of Crozier Canyon.
Drifting downgrade on UP's Palmdale cutoff, UP AC45CCTE 5399, paired up with 2 EMD SD70M's lead a Ballast train through Pine Lodge
Now having dealt with Beaumont Hill, UP 8583 flies through White Water bound for points east.
Freshly painted SD70ACe 8583 leads a intermodal train against the stiff gradient of Beaumont Hill as it passes through the east end of San Timoteo Canyon.
On a warm spring afternoon, the rear unit of the daily Robertson Rock train passes a Union Pacific SD70ACe battling the stiff grade of Beaumont Hill with a manifest in tow.
UP "Triclops" SD60M 2376 leads the Gemco-Guadalupe Hauler past the christmas tree farm in Somis on the western end of Metrolink's Ventura Subdivision.
A UP rail train climbs westbound as it passes through White Water on the UP Yuma Subdivision.
BNSF 5004 leads a intermodal train over the Tehachapi Loop and through Tunnel 9
Run of the mill BNSF power heads trailers as they head east through Cable.
UP 7968 leads a passenger special (SWCOA-04) consisting of the cars Stanford, Sunset and Idaho.