BNSF 5262 and shorter manifest rumble west over the Alhambra/Muir Trestle on a beautiful November afternoon.

The McCloud River's Sierra Job has just crossed Lake Britton, and is now crossing CA 89 on the climb away from the lake. It is returning to McCloud after switching out the big Sierra Pacific sawmi... (more)

Back in 2017, it had been many years of drought conditions since Shasta lake was full of water. Now after a couple of years Rain and Snow the lake is at capacity. Crossing a full Lake Shasta over ... (more)

American River, American Flag. Union Pacific Railroad 3092 (SD70AH-T4) is a relatively new addition to the Union Pacific Railroad fleet, a recent product of Progress Rail/EMD. On Sunday, July 26, ... (more)

A BNSF Z9 Intermodal heads west through the old ATSF Truss bridge just outside of Victorville CA. New bridge construction in this area makes this shot a thing of the past.

An afternoon switch job wyes their train as they cross the Dominguez Channel before shoving to US Borax. An MPI MP20B-3 and Progress Rail PR30C are the power.

FWRY's Extra 3501 with a string of LPG tanks for storage, pulls across Santa Paula Creek. It's possible to go five years without seeing a freight train here (although this is the second recent one... (more)

Power off the ISILB3 returns towards Dolores after yarding a train on Terminal Island. Traditionally the inbound UP road crews have terminated at ICTF and a combination of PHL and UP yard crews wo... (more)

The San Diego County Fair is in full swing as a Coaster commuter train passes it northbound, crossing the San Dieguito River as it does. This three-car train is heading from San Diego to Oceansid... (more)

Making good time on its southern trip down the rails that the famous Daylight passenger train once plied, Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight races across the 811-foot-long Gaviota trestle.... (more)

As the morning light continues to warm the floor of the Central Valley of California, BNSF 7161 hustles a southbound (railroad east) baretable train over the Merced River at Cressey.

LOB86 enters the Mojave Sub at Bench for the short trip towards Slover.

A schnabel car move crosses the Santa Ana River into Anaheim. The J-SDGDAG9 consists of two locomotives, an equipment flat, caboose, spacer, the schnabel car itself, another spacer and caboose. It... (more)

Amador Central crosses California 88 near Ione. R&R's Jim Boyd graciously ducked down so I could get this shot without him in the foreground.

Basin is a remote place at the eastern end of Afton Canyon. The head light of a westbound coal train could be seen in the distance before it crossed the dried-up Mojave River at Basin.