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)

SERA 2679 at BNSF Riverbank.

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

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

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.

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)

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 ©

Crossing Searles Station Road in Searles, CA, two of Trona Railway's fleet of approximately 50-year-old UP and SP castoffs smoke it up for the last bit of grade they will face.

The Trona Railway arrives at the lonely junction in Searles, where they will shove their train for the UP up the remaining stub of the SP Jawbone Branch and then grab the second half of a coal tra... (more)

Trona's Searles' Turn passes by the "alien-looking" Pinnacles. The Pinnacles are tufa spires, some as high as 140 feet, that rise from the bed of the Searles Dry Lake basin, and are a ra... (more)

Trona's Searles' Turn has just begun its run out to Searles Junction as it rounds a curve near West End. Power is a mix of old SP and old UP SD40 variations.

The VTA light rail system serves San Jose and nearby cities in Santa Clara County, California. It is operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) and has 42.2 miles (67.9 km) ... (more)

Leased by Foster Farms from Western Rail Inc., WRIX SD38AC 201 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Duluth Missabe & Iron Range 201 in June 1971. Fifty-three years later, it is ... (more)

The KLW SE24B is a low-emissions diesel switcher locomotive built by Knoxville Locomotive Works, powered by a single MTU Series 4000 12V R54 (TIER 3) diesel engine which develops a total power out... (more)