A hot Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway piggyback train, BNSF 9-896-24, passes through the station of May as it heads east out of Los Angeles behind ATSF SD40-2 5084, which has not yet been ren... (more)

Switching cars in Guadalupe, on California's Central Coast, is Southern Pacific SD7R 1500. Built by EMD in January 1953 as SP SD7 5292, this engine was renumbered to SP 2713 in the railroad's mas... (more)

UP 1995, wearing the iconic Chicago & North Western heritage colors, is in charge of a monster of a manifest heading for Fresno, California from Green River, Wyoming. They're approaching Portola, ... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific freight heads out of Las Vegas on the UP's Third Subdivision of the Utah Division behind a trio of SD40-2s, led by UP SD40-2 3604. Bringing up the markers, when that wa... (more)

Union Pacific "Quality Manifest" train 1-WCKC-Q-(K)-17 passes through the Hinda Crossovers as it heads east from West Colton CA to Kansas City KS. Still early after the UP's acquisition... (more)

Rounding the famed Tehachapi Loop is an Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway piggyback train heading north to, most likely, Stockton CA based upon all the Bud of California refrigerated trailers, to... (more)

Descending Cajon Pass is a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway baretable train, heading from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to San Bernardino, just sixteen miles ahead. Two-month-old BNSF Dash 9-44CW ... (more)

An intermodal train heads south on the Shasta Route in spring 1999.

2 BNSF DPUs bring up the rear of a north bound manifest as it slowly drifts by a holding BNSF south bound, down and out of Caliente and into the canyons just west of town.

SP cab-forward 4135 leads 61 cars westbound at 10 MPH, after exiting a snowshed in the vicinity of Donner Pass, on August 4th 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP Daylight, 2nd 99, is seen at the Third & Townsend Street station in San Francisco California on July 26th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP cab-forward 4119 leads The Owl, SP 2nd 26, at Los Angeles California on May 4th 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

AT&SF train number 74 is seen leaving Los Angeles California in 1934. ATSF 4-6-2 1342 is sporting some unusual looking marker light brackets as it leads three cars at 15 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry pho... (more)

Southbound San Joaquin 710 has just departed Turlock/Denair Amtrak Station at Denair Ca.

UP 6487 leads a westbound IDILB down Beaumont Hill at El Casco.