Southern Pacific SD70Ms 9818, 9816 and Union Pacific SD60 6055 roll downgrade from the summit at Tehachapi towards Mojave.
The Permanente job is turning across Winchester Blvd. and onto the line up to Permanente.
A westbound SP manifest exits tunnel 10 and circles the Loop on its way down the northwestern slope of the Tehachapi Mountains.
Although General Electric power reigns on the Shasta Route today, it was exotic once upon a time. The first freight train I ever saw on the Black Butte Subdivision that had a solid set of GEs clim... (more)
The Alturas Turn is about to crest the grade up Howard's Gulch between Canby and Ambrose. From here, it should be just a couple of hours up the Modoc Line to home at Klamath Falls.
East meets west as SP and Conrail units pull a train west along San Pablo Bay.
Eastbound SP train descending Donner Pass near Truckee
Westbound SP train climbing Cajon Pass with snow covered San Gabriel Mountains in distance.
A Cotton Belt four-axle unit leads a scarlet-and-gray set of locomotives around Sullivan's Curve on the Palmdale Cut-off through Cajon Pass.
An eastbound SP freight was climbing Beaumont Pass in San Timoteo Canyon near Redlands
A colorful gaggle of box cars trail Southern Pacific's Salt Lake City to Denver manifest through Riverton on Sept. 18, 1995.
A clean pair of SD70M's lead a southbound manifest at Dike.
an SP "Dolores Hauler" was passing the future site of the Metro Blue line Artesia Station about to pass under both Artesia Blvd and the 91 Fwy on it's way to Dolores yard five miles ahead.
A consist of howling tunnel motors drags a hefty eastbound manifest up the torturous grade just west of Caliente.
an eastbound SP manifest train negotiates the horseshoe curve below Bealville in the Tehachapi Mountains