This is the classic barn shot on the UP Geneva Sub just west of Geneva. A hot California to Chicago Z crosses over at Peck less than 40 miles from Chicago.

UP local LRS99s crew is on lunch break as an eastbound manifest appears in Modesto Ca.

My suspicions were confirmed on this one by a friend. It's the MHKRV one of the detour trains, we are getting here in Utah. Trains that normally go through Northern California. Are being forced to... (more)

With a GE Tier 4 out front by itself. It really got to hear what they sound like. Definitely not anything impressive, but they are unique. I don't have any idea what this train is. But I am thinki... (more)

Parked on the wye in the Union Pacific Railway’s West Anaheim Yard are UP ET44AC 2739 and ES44AC 8260. While each of these are different General Electric models, the UP classes th... (more)

Between Ordway and El Casco on Union Pacific's Yuma Subdivision, a Fort Worth to West Colton general freight winds downgrade through San Timoteo Canyon with a pair of brand new ET45AH units just d... (more)

Grinding up the eastern slope of Beaumont Hill on UP's Yuma Subdivision, a westbound general freight is down to a crawl as it passes through Cabazon with a pair of brand new Tier 4 motors from GE ... (more)

2 new ET45AH's bring up the rear of a westbound freight between Ordway and El Casco.

Second and third generation EMD's huddle together in Dupo yard on a cold December evening.

Squint your eyes and you'll see that this is still an Espee train!

A patched SD45 carbody SD40M-2 and patched sister SD40 carbody SD40M-2 (both ex-SP) were assigned to the water/work train that came north from L.A. to repair the smaller Gaviota trestle burned in ... (more)

A patched SD45 carbody SD40M-2 and patched sister SD40 carbody SD40M-2 (both ex-SP) were assigned to the water/work train that came north from L.A. to repair the smaller Gaviota trestle burned in ... (more)