An eastbound passes above a westbound at dawn.

UP 3943 & UP 3926 pass under CSX 709 & UP 4031 as they both cross the Kansas River

UP 5371 South rounds the curve as it approaches Tunnel #1 at Caliente.

Just a few seconds later and we would have a perfect over/under. As it turned out this view captures the first of two distributed power helpers on loaded NS coal train 722 passing underneath a sou... (more)

Amtrak P42 164 leads the westbound Southwest Chief through LaVergne as a westbound manifest with a pair of SD75Ms approaches.

NB freight chugs out of the yard crossing over the lead to the CV main heading to the main line.

A NB SP manifest exits Tunnel 9 under Tehachapi Loop lead by two brand new, sequentially numbered, and spotless Southern Pacific SD70M’s . An old SD45 trails as the third unit. SP 9806 is the se... (more)

CSX Q696 rumbles across the Copper Creek Viaduct only seconds after the head end of NS 722 crossed the lower NS trestle. more)

A Shaker Heights PCC passes as a NKP freight is going by.....it was almost perfect timing to show off a new pair of Kroger Grocery Semi-trailers that were loaded on a flat car.

East and Westbound autoracks meet at the Cienega Creek Bridge.

BNSF 9967 leads a loaded coal train off BNSF rails and up the St. Charles Air Line. This train is bound for Michigan via CN's former IC and GTW lines out of Chicago. Down below, BNSF hostlers prep... (more)

An eastbound BNSF manifest is coiled around Arnold Loop, descending Union Pacific's Silver Zone Pass in eastern Nevada. This train is running from Stockton CA to Denver CO on trackage rights gran... (more)

UP 717 is working at Benicia while an Autorack train passes overhead with an uncommon for California CN SD40-2.

This is the heaviest and longest train to run on the BNSF Transcon and Tehachapi lines. It is the 17,000 ton grain train. It typically runs 9 Engines in three sets, lead, mid and rear. Dash 8 871 ... (more)