Union Pacific No. 844 leads the eastbound Feather River Canyon Special across the Rock Creek Trestle on a cold and rainy morning.

Crossing Lake Oroville in the warm, afternoon sunlight, UP 9926 leads a local into James as it exists the iconic 1962-built bridge.

On a clear winter afternoon in Barstow, CA, BNSF 533 East crosses a concrete bridge over the Mojave River.

A Big Boy Pointing at Tehachapi. UP 4014 will likely be the first and last "Big Boy" steam locomotive to ever find itself on BNSF's Mojave Subdivision - the tracks that deposit BN... (more)

A northbound Portland-bound manifest crosses the Cajon Wash in San Bernardino in early morning light.

UP 4014 crosses one of the two steel bridges located east of Victorville as it prepares to stop for a red signal to allow the train ahead of it to get a little farther down the line. Once the bloc... (more)

Amtrak's Coast Starlight passes over the eastern end of the Santa Clara River Bridge and into Oxnard California with a Phase One Heritage paint scheme in the lead. Although from this angle this lo... (more)

The 7400 Swticher brings its pulls over the Dominguez Channel Bridge on the Carson Industrial Lead. This job works out of Mead Yard, which has become the last bastion of NRE Gensets in Southern Ca... (more)

On the first day of fall, a 14 hour late Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon Viaduct on the flank of Mount Shasta. The next station stop for train 11 will be Dunsmuir.

A BNSF Railway local, L-CAL0111-18, descends Cajon Pass as it makes its way from Barstow to Kaiser. (Kaiser is the name for BNSF's small yard in Fontana, California, adjacent to the Auto Club Spe... (more)

Amtrak 1573, a weekend service train traveling from San Diego to Los Angeles, crosses the Santa Ana River and, in the process, crosses from the city of Orange into Anaheim. The train is slowing f... (more)

A hot Santa Fe 891 train heads east in July 1986. This piggyback train is crossing the Santa Ana River at the east end of Santa Ana Canyon, and in the process has also just crossed from Orange Co... (more)

An eastbound BNSF local crosses the Stanislaus River Bridge at Riverbank Ca.

BNSF 7421 westbound near Essex, California.

On a warm afternoon, a northbound UP train crosses Castle Creek in the Sacramento River Canyon. A crew change at Dunsmuir is around fifteen minutes away.