Beauty In Bealville. Union Pacific Railroad ZLCLT-21 (UPRR 1989, DRG&W heritage, SD70AH leading) was passing CP SP341 in Bealville, California on Tuesday, July 21, 2020 as it headed towards... (more)

Union Pacific train MANWC 05, which originated in Arden, Nevada, and is heading for West Colton Yard in southern California. Three UP SD70Ms – 4483, 4968 and 3800 – are taking this train thro... (more)

Five-and-a-half hours after being pulled out of the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds/Rail Giants Museum (at 2:30 am), the big steam locomotive, flanked by two diesels, backs onto UP train PWCWC2 25,... (more)

Heading to Lynwood's Cargill Milling, Union Pacific's Reyes Switcher (train LOG11R 29) heads north on the railroad's Patada Industrial Lead, paralleling the trench that contains the Alameda Corrid... (more)

Constructed in April 2016 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Union Pacific SD70ACe 9026, the next year this locomotive was chosen by UP to be repainted and renumbered to UP 1943 as the c... (more)

Three Brothers From San Francisco Leave Home. With the end of diesel service on CalTrain, and much digital ink having been spilled over the F40 and MPI36 units now out of work, it is a good... (more)

CAJON Pass CA Sept 6 1983 — With a wave from the left side Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8386 handles helper duties in the Pass. Photo by Charles Stookey

UP Turlock local LRS44R passes through Modesto Ca.

Union Pacific 3GS21B Y2723 is a low-emissions diesel genset locomotive built by National Railway Equipment (NRE) at their Mount Vernon shops in Southern Illinois. Instead of a single prime mover, ... (more)

A Southern Pacific freight heads west (which in this case is north, but on the SP anything heading toward San Francisco is westbound), passing the carrier’s Taylor Yard, its main yard in Los Ang... (more)

UP 4-10-2 8800 leads 57 cars eastbound at 25 MPH near Yermo California in 1933. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

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.

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