Rolling past Union Pacific's Ozol Yard is Amtrak train 710, a San Joaquin heading form Oakland's Jack London Square to Bakersfield. This train consists of California Department of Transpor... (more)

AT&SF, Santa Fe SD40-2 5155- U36C 8798- SD45-2 5663 & 5637, with a westbound trailer train at Goffs, California. June 22, 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

This Railpower Technologies (RPI) RP20BD locomotive, numbered 5406, carries no visible reporting mark, so conventional wisdom has it as a Foster Farms (FPFX) unit. Then again, it could also be ow... (more)

Sandrini, at milepost 927 on BNSF Railway's Bakersfield Sub, is a rather lonely place located in California's southern San Joaquin Valley. And it is here where we find southbound (eastbound on th... (more)

NS 1041 leads UP's Mojave to Yermo local out of town as it gets onto BNSF rails at South Mojave.

SERA 2679 at BNSF Riverbank.

A.L Gilbert's newest addition at Keyes, CA.

WRIX 602 at J.D Heiskell's Pixley facility.

Around a year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a lumber drag from Oregon arrives at Dunsmuir.

A coal train bound for Searles highballs Bealville siding in the Tehachapis.

The Salinas Hauler drops off two boxcars at International Paper in Gilroy--the last rail-served customer in town.

Eastbound kicks up some dust passing thru the oasis of Palm Springs.

The Trona Railway brings a coal train north in the desolate Searles Valley. Every railfan has likely experienced waiting for the train, which is taking longer than you expected, and watching your ... (more)

A coal train to Trona begins its very slow creep out of Searles with nary a puff of smoke as they come out of the interchange with the UP on a downward grade.

AT&SF, Santa Fe B40-8W 523-F45 5957-BN SD40-2 6348-AT&SF SD40-#5069 westbound over the bridge at Canyon Diablo, Arizona. April 12, 1998. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo