IT/RRC 2301 and RRC 1800 rest side by side for a night photo session, with lighting provided by Chris Guss. Thanks Chris!

The only freight I saw was well worth it! The BNSF 2141 Local struggles up the 1% grade with 6000 tons of train, and two SD60s of different variety leading.

A tranquil scene at the blue hour is disrupted by a grain train swimming upstream and into another typical Hauser meltdown. I'd photograph this train at 16:46 and when I went to bed the next morni... (more)

CDTX 2051 sits on Track 1 in the Coach Yard waiting to be refueled before going back out on another Auburn-bound train.

Racing West along the Yellowstone River, three SD45's have the Kansas City, KS to Spokane, WA manifest in tow, sweeping through a s-curve with the Crazy Mountains behind.

I haven't shot this one in a while, BNSF 114 East takes 29 loads back to Richmond on the Warm Springs Job.

Miss Katy splits a set of SP relic searchlight signals, as she and 3 more units struggle to take a 9400+ ton stack train out of the slight .3% grade in San Leandro. Thanks to my G... (more)

Clocked between 41 and 44MPH, the "City of Stugis" SD40-2 races the Kenmare wayfreight back home, catching the last of sunlight, while a driver in a 2011 Ford F-150 paces alongside.

Due to Niles Junction diamond replacement, all of the San Jose Capitol Corridor trains have been detoured via the Coast Subdivision.. Engineer and pilot Tom Haskin crawls out of a 40MPH restrictio... (more)

DMVW 5439 North battles the whipping wind and blowing snow on a bitterly cold Winter afternoon. Wind chills down to -25!

With 21 cars in tow, job 203 comes to a stop under a beautiful puffy clouded sky.

The blossoms of the fruit tree symbolize the beginning of Spring, here in late-February as an odd-ball patched GP39 rolls accross the Alameda Creek Bridge.

This SD39-2R reflects on it's past life, built as a SD45-2 for Santa Fe, brought down to a puny SD40-2R and now she's a SD39-2R... 20, 16, and now 12 cylinder EMD powerhouses have all seen mainlin... (more)

At O'Dark Thirty the UPY1351 sits outside of yard limits awaiting the arrival of the MOARV.

MRL's 840 Local, with two SD70ACe's, passes what was once the small canyon town of Lombard, so named for Milwaukee Road predecessor Montana Railroad's Chief Engineer Arthur B. Lombard.

Loca... (more)