A Global 4 to City of Industries, CA, hot Z-train crosses over at Ethel around couple slow pokes as they work west on the Marceline Sub. A crazy April snow storm has coated everything, I cant even... (more)

The southbound Gaudalupe Local to las Angeles crosses the old Southern Pacific Trestle across Gaviota State Beach. The park and the surrounding area is a great place to stay and enjoy trains.

Orejano Canyon A Union Pacific Stack Train battles the steep grade and Curves above Cliff. The train has just exited Tunnel 8 and will soon plunge into Tunnel 9. Massive concrete retaini... (more)

A fiery sunset over Santa Cruz Island and the Santa Barbara Subdivision with the southbound Guadalupe Local silhouetted at Seacliff Siding.

Canyon in Snow
Eastbound priority oil from Utah is impatiently moving through the depths of the canyons cut by South Boulder Creek east of Pinecliffe, Colorado. Intense red o... (more)

Donner Pass Shed 10 A dry cold front makes for some crisp morning views of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. A massive double grain empty climbs the 1.8% grade at Shed 10. The power for the ... (more)

Donner Pass Shed 10 Snowshed s once lined almost the entire distance from Yuba Gap to Donner Summit. This intensive use of sheds led to severe smoke problems, and as snow fighting tech... (more)

Donner Pass Shed 10 Climbing the granite Sierra Nevada Mountains is a battle that has existed since 1869. Chinese immigrant laborers hand chiseled this railroad to open America. The rail... (more)

Moffat Storm Front A strong upslope Storm Front that will drop snow at higher elevations pushes a steady rain into South Draw. The empty oil train moves out of the rain falling across th... (more)

Bosler Highball

High stepping around the grade and tangent north of the Laramie River GSSNTU-25 Loaded Grain train (Grain-Shuttle-Shelton, NE-Tulare, CA) is at track spee... (more)

Morning fog along the Mississippi river burns off, as a sb stack train races through Chester IL.

Back in 2017, it had been many years of drought conditions since Shasta lake was full of water. Now after a couple of years Rain and Snow the lake is at capacity. Crossing a full Lake Shasta over ... (more)

Moffat Sand A unit sand train climbs the Big 10 on the Moffat Road. The sand is headed for the oil and gas fields of Western Colorado and Central Utah. The vast basin between the Main Ran... (more)

Built for Battle This westbound Soda Ash train was built in Pocatello to battle the grades of the Pacific Northwest. The train left the Wyoming Soda Mines 2x1. In Pocatello the train adde... (more)

Tunnel District A very heavy westbound manifest for Grand Junction, Colorado crawls thru the most challenging portion of the Moffat Road. There is no place else on the Moffat Road that ch... (more)