A loaded coal train toils up the steep west slope of Tennessee Pass in the early morning.
WC 6612 and a gaggle of off-line power with the RVKCM along the Eagle River.
The rocky walls of Serpentine Canyon rumble with the early-morning passage of the UP 3963 West on a perfect June morning.
An eastbound autorack train crosses the Muir trestle in the late afternoon.
A recently re-numbered SD60M leads its consist past historic Port Costa on the shores of the Carquinez Straits.
A trio of SD70s haul their general merchandise train upgrade approaching Newcastle.
One half-mile east of Pinole, the ATSF 229 West casts it reflection in a pool of rainwater.
A westbound TOFC train is pictured at Yuba Gap.
A trainload of Taiwanese coke en route from the Port of Richmond to Geneva, Utah.
An interesting gaggle of older and leased motive power on a westbound merchandise train.
Amador's elderly Baldwin earns its keep, bringing empties back to Martell from interchange with the UP in Ione. Sadly, this operation is defunct now.
An eastbound train, led by B40-8 7410, slips out of the gloom in Franklin Canyon.
With a mixed consist that was common for the period, a westbound general merchandise train rolls out of Tunnel 18 and through Newcastle.
The SP 8530 East is pictured with its train of empties at Cortena siding. The SP mothballed this line several years later, eventually leasing it to the California Northern.
Merger-painted SD45 #5355 leads seven other units downgrade with a COFC train. This crossing of Tehachapi Creek is at the east end of Woodford siding.
