Heading to Los Angeles, Southern Pacific GS-4 4449 makes a service stop in Tehachapi after climbing out of the San Joaquin Valley. The low sun this morning creates a mood similar to a plein ai... (more)

Union Pacific Railway GP40P-2 1375 first showed up in Anaheim in November 2021 with no graffiti upon it. Roughly two-and-a-half years later, it looks like this. Built by EMD in November 1974 as ... (more)

A pair of new 9800's along with the Katy Heritage unit lead westbound symbol ZG4CI between Fingal and Cabazon.

A manifest comes into West Colton Yard off the Palmdale Cutoff. Power are a pair of SD40T-2s (SP and DRGW) bookending a MK SD40M-2 rebuild. Oct 25 1995.

A trio of two kind of new and one brand new eSPee AC4400CWs head towards the Wilmington Wye south of Dolores Yard. October 15 1995.

UP local delivers cars to Escalon Premier Brands in Escalon Ca.

Awaiting the passage of a directors' special bound for Oregon, Southern Pacific's PTLAT train is parked in the siding at Mott, California.

Hooping Up Orders

As an eastbound Southern Pacific Railroad freight, led by Cotton Belt SD45T-2 9269, departs Hiland, at the summit of Cajon Pass, the conductor grabs his ... (more)

Union Pacific's Calipatria Local sits on a side track (with derail up) in the farming community of Imperial. The lead unit is (was) the last SP unit with Roman font lettering. Unfortunately the ta... (more)

UP 5937 leads an eastbound West Colton to Tucson manifest at the Beaumont crossovers.

A tunnel motor with patina leads a westbound intermodal train on the Shasta Route.

GP60 9785 leads SD70Ms 9810 and 9809.

Southern Pacific trains meet on the Shasta Route at Upton siding during August 1988.

Less than an hour from a crew change at Dunsmuir, a hot intermodal train is westbound on the Shasta Route near Mount Shasta.

This trackage, threading between a stand of palm trees and a row of eucalyptus, is Union Pacific's San Pedro Subdivision. It was, before the UP acquired the Southern Pacific, the UP's mainline to ... (more)