A trio of Super Fleet GP60Ms accelerate across the plain approaching Monolith and the summit of the Tehachapis.
UP 5070 East crests the Sand Pass grade and glides downgrade into the Smoke Creek desert.
An SD9043MAC leads this trainload of coal upgrade at the west end of Belden siding.
The UP E-units leading a Director's Special over Altamont, headed for Oakland.
The UP 5779 North emerges from a thunderstorm as it rolls through Ostrum, approaching Marysville.
The class unit of Amtrak's remaining P32s with its Capitol train at Pinole.
A westbound stack train utilizing trackage rights on UP's Martinez Subdivision passes the site of the former Hercules plant.
A Herrington-Roper merchandise train slowly descends the west slope of Tennessee Pass between Mitchell and Pando.
A fire-damaged C44 "convertible" leads a grain train down the Feather River Canyon at Pulga.
The UP 4094 assist a very tardy Train 11 at Pinole.
On home rails at last, the BNSF 4710 East accelerates through the curve at Sanborn.
A rebuilt U36C heads downgrade into Caliente on a hot morning in May 1987. The Santa Fe referred to these units as SF30Cs and squeezed quite a few extra miles out of them.
A mismatched pair of units work east with a merchandise train at Christie.
An eastbound empty taconite train meets a westbound merchandise train at the summit of Tennessee Pass.
One advantage of the Cal-P line for the fan is the presence of old motive power, such as this tunnel motor at Pinole.
