Digging into the start of Donner Pass and its assault of the Sierra Nevada, a westbound intermodal train chases the setting sun on National Train Day 2017. It's somewhat appropriate shooting ... (more)

With a nicely matched set of UP-CSX-UP-CSX-UP motors up front an eastbound Union Pacific manifest sails across the North Platte River at Fort Steele, WY. Fort Steele was once the location of a US ... (more)

At the Mormon Rocks, a westbound Union Pacific intermodal train descends the Cajon Pass as it passes by the Southern Pacific lettered bridge over CA-138 on the Palmdale Cutoff (UP Mojave Sub).

From the rugged hills of Tehachapi Pass and Cajon Pass to the sea spray of the coast line, this Union Pacific business car train saw it all, all within a 24 hour period. Beginning the morning in B... (more)

UP 2735 leads a 8 car engineering special out of the Tehachapi Mountains at Warren, north of Mojave.

Passing the west switch of Pomona siding still guarded with ex SP searchlights, UP 2735 races west with a San Luis Obispo bound engineering special.

Trying to out run a fast moving weather front an eastbound Z train hustles through Walcott, WY on the western end of Union Pacific's Laramie Subdivision.

Crossing the 115-year-old, ex-Southern Pacific bridge that still spans the banks of the Salinas River for the Union Pacific Railroad, UP 2617 leads a late afternoon edition of the coast line's fam... (more)

Catching the last rays of light on this cool March evening, UP 2617 leads the southbound oil cans toward Paso Robles on their way to Santa Margarita for a date with the San Luis Obispo-based helpe... (more)

Passing the original Mission San Miguel structure that still welcomes both tourists and school children from across the state to learn its history, UP 2617 leads another heavy edition of the south... (more)

CSXT tier4 #3434 brings up the rear of this eastbound ILXG4 as it passes Pomona on the Alhambra Sub.

CSXT 3278 brings up the rear of this KG4LB as it passes through Beaumont on a warm late winter afternoon in Southern California.

UP 2699 leads the West Colton to North Platte manifest east of Cajon Summit at Martinez.

With the sun already set below the mountains, last light glints off an eastbound stack train as it passes a classic and rare set of Southern Pacific era cantilever signal bridges still guarding th... (more)