After meeting one at Woodford, BNSF6606 tries to get back going on the grade... Run 6, sanders on, and he couldn't pull it, just kept rolling backwards. I guess BNSF will learn the hard way you ca... (more)

Opened on November 30, 1867, after two years of blasting, Tunnel 8 at Donner Pass was used continuously for 130 years by the trains of the Central Pacific, and Southern Pacific. The Chinese worked... (more)

Wanna Race? A big GE P32-8BWH is side by side with a Lexus IS350 as they race for pinks down Jack London Square. Canon Rebel XS.

A matching trio of former BN Executive SD70MAC's lead an empty Roberts Bank coal train over the jointed rail of Montana Rail Link's 10th Subdivision on a warm, albeit wet Winter morning.

Soaring high over the white waters of the Fish Creek, MRL's Silver Cloud business train crawls West with a train full of passengers. Dennis Washington put on a show for a business partners' family... (more)

After crew changing at 18th Street, UP's E9's accelerate out of Kansas City, leaving the skyline behind on the old Omaha Main.

My first SP 4449 experience was short, but memorable. The legendary GS4 rolls through dual searchlights, only a couple miles from it's final destination after a cross country adventure from Michig... (more)

A Northbound Baby Bullet has began it's journey to San Francisco, and in just over a hour it'll arrive at Third and Townsend.

Rest in Peace SP 8283, she was the last SP Tunnel Motor on the UP System as of 4/26/2008 when she went East over Donner to North Platte for scrap. Much thanks though to a helpful 'fella who shined... (more)

10,250.....is the combined horsepower on the California Zephyr. A gurgling beast AC6000CW has taken over the leading role and sits in Emeryville 1 hour and 17 minutes late as the engineer r... (more)

Panned Pillars. Years ago in this very spot, the mighty Milwaukee Road passed over the Burlington Northern. Time passed and the Milwaukee fell but the BN kept going strong. Dotted all over ... (more)

Foamers and "normals" line the Embarcadero for UP 844's trip South... May 22nd, 2009, what could be the most memorable railfanning day I've ever had......

New Street! Union Pacific has almost completed the task of laying new rail, and concrete crossing panels the whole length of Jack London Square. On a stunning November morning, CDTX 2007, i... (more)

An empty Boardman coal train briefly disrupts the quiet hamlet of Reed Point on a gorgeous March morning.

Sleet falling drones out the sound of EMD and GE's thundering up the 1.6% grade out of Coldstream Canyon. The wet rails are giving this SD9043MAC some troubles, and their speed is down to 11MPH, l... (more)