Early in the morning on a 4th of July, a hot 991 train trundles across the SP diamonds at Stockton Tower as a photographer at left records its passing on video.

The power of Santa Fe 545 East climbs in the foreground toward tunnel 10 as the rear portion of the train continues circling the Tehachapi Loop.

A hot 199 train accelerates off the Orwood Bridge just as the sun sets over the San Joaquin Delta.

I found out the hard way that the A&C comes earlier than it use to a few years.... pulled into Cadiz just in time to see the shortline accelerate into the sunset. Fortunately the Cadiz local offer... (more)

A hot 991 train roars across the Merced River Bridge as it speeds through a large, sweeping curve on its 55-hour journey to Chicago.

A westbound intermodal train crosses the big steel bridge at Canyon Diablo.

Although the paint looks a bit warn out, it's always good to see an old Warbonnet in the service yard.

A quartet of Super Fleet warbonnets lead a Santa Fe piggyback train through Kingman Canyon.

A hot Santa Fe intermodal climbs Goffs Hill through Bannock, California while the Dead Mountains loom in the shadows near the Nevada state line.

BNSF 504 leads a very overpowered local through Lockport.

This rock train had come up the old SAL mail from Savannah and diverted onto the line to Augusta at the town of Fairfax. US 278 is good for a chase thru this area but watch the speed limits!

Two BNSF Dash 8's lead the SD60M pair on the Chicago to Galesburg Local.

A pair of former ATSF B40-8Ws, one still in Santa Fe Warbonnet paint, ease their local train onto the Smithboro siding for a meet with a southbound coal train. Even though their duties have been r... (more)

eastbound LA to Ft Worth Q train running around lower priority train at West Daggett before old Santa Fe style cantilever style signals were replaced with generic aluminum framed tri lites

NERR #579 leads the westbound N&E train through Hickman, TN bound for Lebanon and Nashville.