Eastbound Barstow to Kansas City freight climbing toward Crozier Canyon near Valentine

Eastbound Richmond, CA, to Birmingham, AL, intermodal train climbing east at old station of Audley, west of Seligman.

An eastbound Santa Fe manifest crosses the landmark Santa Fe trestle at Larkspur, Colorado. During this era, Santa Fe trains were in the minority on the Joint Line. Traffic was dominated by Burlin... (more)

After many trips with my dad to California, Arizona, and New Mexico to photograph the Santa Fe. We start to explore some of the more obscure sections of the trans-con main line. The Crookton line ... (more)

In what appears to be a power move, F45 No. 5936 leads an eastbound manifest through the sweeping curve at Martinez on the eastern slope of Cajon Pass.

An eastbound freight comes downhill at Edelstein behind GE and EMD units, There's not much clearance with those steel loads on the westbound train pulling uphill.

Arizona Divide Kodachrome(s)
An eastbound Santa Fe piggyback train, with six reefers up front, flies through Bellemont, Arizona, while crossing the Arizona Divide on July 7, 1986. Power... (more)

Shortly after sunrise, an eastbound hotshot storms up out of the shadows of the pass with an 60M A-B-A-A set. The once spiffy new Super Fleet paint on the Warbonnets was already by the mid-90s ... (more)

676 leads D8-40BW 547, SD75M 206 and D9-44CW 600 on the climb towards Tunnel 1.

A westbound Santa Fe piggyback train flies across emerald fields of Soybeans west of Leeds, Illinois, on August 26, 1995. A pair of GE B40-8Ws bracket two EMD GP60Bs in almost-perfect A-B-B-A form... (more)

Santa Fe red and silver FP45 No. 98 leads a long pig train up the steep grade at Woodford, CA. The morning fog hasn't yet burned off, and the 98 looked like phantom apparition when it appeared fro... (more)

An eastbound approaches the flyover at Frost, behind an interesting selection of power. Trailing units are GP9 2279, SDF40-2 5261, SD50 CR 6732, SD40-2 5147, SF30C 9528, and FP45 97.

Climbing thru Crozier Canyon with a quartet of 4-axle power in 1992.

A westbound Santa Fe manifest descends the Tehachapi grade at Keene, California. GP30/GP35 power was quite common in this era.

A lone GP30 breaks up a solid brace of GP35’s leading a westbound train at Cliff Siding.