WP F7A 921D leads a Sacramento Northern Detour train into Charter Way siding at sunset.
WP Alco S2 No. 557 returns to the yard with what looks to be lumber loads.
A consist of four ex-SP&S Alco Centuries waits at the fuel racks to be serviced for its next assignment up the Valley and the Feather River Canyon.
The crews of these two UP freights have just given an officers special a roll-by, and the first is now departing eastward. The special was carrying VP Jerry Davis, soon to retire from the railroad... (more)
Four RS3s bring a transfer run out of Vancouver Yard and head for Portland across the Columbia River.
A burst of lightning fills the sky during a monsoon thunderstorm as a UP train passes a grade crossing at night.
SP passenger GP9 3000 and a "torpedo boat" roll train 122 south through Bayshore with the railroad's yard and roundhouse visible in the distance.
WP NW2 No. 608 sits on the turntable tracks next to Tidewater Southern Alco RS1 No. 746. No. 608 is now on display in restored paint at the Portola Railroad Museum.
Westbound coal empties and vehicle traffic negotiate the "wrinkled" terrain just east of Bellevue, Texas.
A short ballast train departs Thackerville after meeting a southbound Z train.
SD40-2 5097, a manned helper out of Bakersfield, helps lift a long pig train up the steep grade and through the multiple reverse curves at Woodford.
An eastbound intermodal train drops off Tehachapi Pass into Mojave, as the Oil Cans wait for a light at the east end of the yard, and another freight approaches from the south.
An eastbound SP manifest, led by new SD40T-2 8356, meets a westbound Santa Fe pig train at the Cable crossovers.
Western Pacific mechanical forces test BN 4365 at Oroville before her next assignment.
Amtrak No. 5 rambles through Colfax as an eastbound SP prepares to depart with an SD45 rear helper.
