SP icicle breaker GP38-2 No. 4817 plows fresh snow at Soda Springs even as the white stuff keeps falling.
The crew of Milwaukee Road Little Joe E79 talks strategy as they switch cars for another freight before leading a second 262 out of Avery over St. Paul Pass and the Bitterroot Mountains. Avery Yar... (more)
As local power idles next to the yard office, a westbound BNSF manifest rolls through town. Pittsburg is the site of some heavy industry, including Dow Chemical and USS-POSCO Steel.
Two ex-GN F7As and a torpedo boat approach BN's Interbay Yard as they skirt Puget Sound through Seattle.
Early in the morning, an SP mixed freight coming off Donner Pass with autos from the East approaches Roseville Yard. The two UP 40s are pool power.
A set of BN pool power moves backs toward WP's shops in Stockton Yard.
A team of shop workers prepares to install new EMD power assemblies in an SD45.
A rebuilt Alligator and a slug perform switching duties at the yard's east end.
Relatively new SD45-2 5647 leads a westbound manifest through San Berdoo Yard.
What looks to be a westbound intermodal train detoured from the Coast Line to the Valley Line makes its way down the severe reverse curves at Caliente.
WP 3001 East climbs through an s-curve toward the summit of Altamont Pass in the Coast Range.
Freshly painted SD35 6916 leads a small work train of creosoted ties down the grade at Sandcut toward Bena.
As an SP engineer inspects and makes ready his helper power in the spur at Bena, a Santa Fe eastbound comes down the hill from Sandcut behind his locomotives in the fading light.
SP passenger GP9s bask in the weekend son as they take a couple days off from their commute train duties.
At sunset, tunnel motor No. 8242 idles in Cape Canaveral.
