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

Union Pacific SD70M, No. 5218 leads the southbound Guad Local along Rincon Beach in the evenings fading light.

A wooden cupola caboose, which might be either Tidewater Southern 305 or Western Pacific 623 (or possibly even an entirely different caboose) is undergoing restoration at the Modesto & Empire Trac... (more)

On a rainy mid-morning, Amtrak SC-44 no. 303 leads number 14, the northbound Coast Starlight, as it crosses Padre Juan Canyon Road along the Faria Beach Colony in Ventura.

UP 6511 leads a westbound manifest near Ordway in San Timoteo Canyon.

Arizona & California, ARZC 3804-2001-2003-2502, with westbound train 707 on the ex-Santa Fe, crossing the Colorado River at Earp, California May 2, 1996. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

With a good string of cars from Guadalupe, Union Pacific SD70ACe no. 8893 cruises south along Emma Wood beach as the sun sets offshore on a clear evening.

SP 2-8-2 3250 leads an eighty four car eastbound freight at 25 MPH near Selma California in 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.