Rolling toward Los Angeles is a Union Pacific train comprised of open hoppers carrying gravel, led by ES44ACs 5452 and 5408 (with 5444 and 5376 on the rear). The train has just exited the Antelop... (more)
Send'em east!! A pair of gevos shove hard as they bring up the rear of this eastbound manifest as it races along side Interstate 80.
UP 5452 leads a 200 car westbound manifest.
It doesn't get much more "Donner" than this! (Except for perhaps some SP Tunnel Motors or Cab Forwards). Climbing the same grade that trains have been battling for nearly 150 years, an e... (more)
Sadly, the classic bridge at MP 377 was torn down today. Glad to be able to say that i was able to shoot there. The classic signals of the pass are now gone.
A heavy manifest slugs it's way up the Tehachapi Loop. The mid-train helpers can be seen beneath the lead locomotive.
After struggling up the Techachapi Mountains this large manifest passes the iconic signal bridge at milepost 377, before entering Mojave
A Large manifest struggles up to the Techachapi Loop on this first day of December.
Traditionally routed via the former SP Saugus Line into Los Angeles, this morning instead finds the UP's Brooklyn trailers on the Palmdale Cutoff as it approaches the north switch at Canyon siding... (more)
With the mormon rocks as a backdrop, UP's hot Brooklyn trailers crossover Hwy 138 as it nears the north siding switch at Canyon.
A UP GEVO idles in the yard just north of Tower 55.
As the rear of an eastbound BNSF stack train climbs Silverwood a northbound UP on the Mojave Sub passes behind it.
UP 5452 leads a eastbound autotrain in to Shed 10 near MP 178
