The caboose of an SP eastbound skirts the flanks of tunnel 4, destroyed in the 1953 earthquake, as the train's helper heads into tunnel 5 in the distance.
SP 9195, a venerable 20-cylinder tunnel motor, leads an intermodal train eastward on the flats east of Monolith.
The Oil Cans meet a westbound Santa Fe intermodal train at the west end of Bealville siding.
A four-unit helper assists a heavy manifest out of the Pacific Northwest up the steep grade at the west end of Bealville siding.
With finished autos off the NS at Kansas City, SP 9308 West rolls downgrade just west of Colfax on Donner Pass.
Ex-SP tunnel motor 4795 leads a manifest up the 1.4 percent grade on the western slope of the Dragoon Mountains.
A big SP manifest headed for the LA Basin blasts upgrade at tunnel 2.
The sun is about to set, as the UP 2846 leads the SJRV along San Pablo Bay on the UP's Cal-P line.
A UP westbound drops down the 1.0 percent grade at Shawmut surrounded by the beautiful Maricopa Mountains.
A six-unit helper assists in lifting the heavy Oil Cans upgrade at Tehachapi. The helper will continue with the train all the way to Dolores in the LA Basin.
SP 9345 rounds a sweeping curve just east of Monolith with the giant cement plant looming in the distance.
SP 9324 East rounds a curve east of Truckee in the early morning.
SP 9234 East meets a train loaded with sugar beets at Coachella with snow-capped Mt. Baldy in the distance.
