(Emigrant Gap, California, not Nevada) The ZG2OA gets moving again after flagging the signal at CP RV171 (Switch 9). The new priority UPS Z train only has six cars on this Sunday morning. This ar... (more)

A trio of ex-SP SD70Ms bring an 80 car Sunday MRVSJ across Summit Trestle, beginning the decent down the west side of Altamont Pass. While UP uses the ex-WP right of way over Altamont, the old SP ... (more)

UP 1901 brings up the rear of the Mission Bay Local as it heads light power to the small yard in Redwood City. Its is one of three remaining DRGW units that have not been repainted.

UP 6571 leads the westbound Roper out of Tunnel 38 at Cisco as it works its way down Donner Pass.

The Boy Scout Unit leads a day late KLTG2 under the signal bridge at Troy on Donner Pass. The day before, the train set off the high wide detector at Rocklin and had to back down to Roseville to b... (more)

Unpatched SSW 9652 slowly crawls forward to couple to a string of empty "dirty dirt" hoppers for forwarding to South San Francisco.

Brand new SD70AH UP 8854 and older (but spotless) UP 8732 pull the impressive Board of Directors Special alongside a field of beautiful California Poppies a couple miles railroad north of Aromas, ... (more)

trio of GP60s on the USFCO idle while the crew fixes a signal problem. Old cranes and buildings at San Francisco's piers bask in late evening sun.

Antelope Western 1, built in 1889, leads the last train of the day back towards the train shed. The crew decided to have some fun and run a double header for their final run of Labor Day weekend. ... (more)

An increasingly rare sight, a red-sill stripe SD70ACe looks sharp as it leads an eastbound auto repo out of the Norden snowsheds.

The ZSPLT rounds the bend at Casa Loma as storm clouds begin to form at higher elevations.

UP 2005 (ex-SSW 9706) and two unpatched sisters, SSW 9669 and SSW 9652, idle between switching moves in Newhall Yard. This trio of GP60s was the power for the Mission Bay Local which runs from Sou... (more)

A warbonnet on the Coast Sub. As strange as that sounds, a warbonnet led the Coast Starlight through the land of the SP Daylights on September 9. The warbonnet made the trip on the point all the w... (more)

UP 5262 shoves hard on the rear on the ZNPOA as it makes its way uphill through the sweeping horseshoe curve at Glenshire.

High above the Bear River Valley, the ZG2LT glides down Donner Pass on a warm February day in 2013. This was the "trouble train" of the day, and the crew was busy trying to remedy lots o... (more)