The westbound California Zephyr rolls out of Truckee in the first snowstorm of the season.

Smoke from a fire in Yosemite has begun to creep into the Tehachapi Mountains as a lone ES44AH heads up the ILBSE 29 as it cruises downgrade into Tunnel 2.

A railfan asks for the "honk" sign as Amtrak 169 pilots 11 south at Rincon State Beach.

Sierra Railway 3, a 1891 graduate of the Rogers Locomotive Works in Patterson, NJ and a 119 year veteran of the Sierra, rests inside the roundhouse in Jamestown after a day hauling tourists throug... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 777 races north across 75-foot-tall, 541-foot-long Arroyo Hondo Creek trestle on it's way to San Luis Obispo.

Grand Canyon F40PH 295 heads up the first section of the 'Williams Flyer' as it proceeds northbound near Pronghorn Ranch Road.

Clover Valley Lumber Co. Mallet #4 makes a runby on it's public debut special.

BNSF 7888 races east out of Barstow past a rather wet West Daggett.

Snow falls as the westbound California Zephyr rounds the curves at Glenshire.

Amtrak 198 guides 14 through the fog that blankets the Pacific Ocean

A dust devil plows through a UP local as it sits in the Bakersfield yard.

TRC 2005 (former SP 8541) sits in the yard at Searles on the former SP Lone Pine Branch as it awaits to take the second section of a loaded coal train back to Trona.

Amtrak 6903 leads train 796 south as the sun sets on a warm July day.

Amtrak 156 leads the Coast Starlight past the picturesque Santa Susana depot as the sun sets on a hot August day.

Leading an IDITAX-24, UP 1983 has finished it's climb over Tehachapi Pass, and will now continue north through the Central Valley of California, and eventually ending it's run in Tacoma, Washingto... (more)