On a foggy night southeast of Stockton at milepost 1114, a target signal's green aspect turns into a beam shooting out from its lens as an eastbound freight approaches.
SP AC 149 has just received a bath and sits alongside sister 204 at the Roseville engine facility waiting to be serviced.
UP 9101 is dwarfed by the depth of Bloomer Cut, blasted out of earth and rock by Central Pacific construction crews using black powder.
At dusk, a Santa Fe westbound approaches Sandcut with headlights glaring, while beyond the subtle hues of the mountains become more obvious than during bright daylight.
Surrounded by Glen Frazer's lush springtime vegetation, GE Dash 8-40B 7428 leads a 199 train into a side canyon that leads to tunnel 3, the longest on the entire Santa Fe system.
With the little village of Truckee blanketed in snow and silence, an eastbound SP manifest rumbles through town at dusk.
A pair of brand-new SD75Ms flash their fresh warbonnet paint in Franklin Canyon as they speed an intermodal train toward Richmond.
As the Tosco Oil Refinery keeps cranking out petroleum products around the clock, a Santa Fe 981 train's ETD leaves a "string of pearls" in its wake as it speeds east through the industrial comple... (more)
Just as evening shadows begin to engulf the Alhambra Valley, 644 West rolls upgrade across Muir Trestle, named for the famous Western naturalist.
A track inspector waits for 2060 East to pass before he gets on the main to follow her to eliminate any fires started by sparks from her locomotives before they get out of hand.
Stopped on the main line at Ilmon, the oil cans' lead brakeman checks for an air leak in his train.
Brand-new SD70M 5054 waits shy of Prince Road in Tucson for an eastbound stack to clear before proceeding on its maiden voyage to the West Coast.
The short hood of SP Trainmaster shows an impressive array of headlights, including a giant Pyle Gyralight and dual sealed beam below it.
As SP mechanical forces prepare to test SDP45 3200 after she's received major repairs, others work on Trainmaster 3025's prime mover.
With the Tehachapis silhouetted against a western sky of beautiful orange at dusk, the oil cans proceed east at Summit toward the LA Basin.
