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KCS 4712 West with a loaded auto train crest the grade at Tokio, WA coming out of a fog bank at 9:37am.

BNSF SD40-2 1924 leads the Lind Turn around the curve at Scribner, WA after waiting for an CP Canpotex train passes east.

CP 8020 and CP 8639 wait in the siding of Juniper, OR next to the Columbia River on a beautiful fall afternoon.

PREX 16 (ex. Ludington & Northern) getting ready to switch out the Kraft plant on the former GR&I. GP9 #907 was being used for power for 5 years while 16 sat sidelined. However, a quick visit to the KTR saw 16 back in action while 907 was offline.

BNSF 7914 ES-44DC and 3 other engines head out Bakersfield 10/13/2024.

Santa Fe 5384 east powers a mix of merger units and yellow bonnets up Cajon Pass at Devore in December 1985.

NS Reading 1067 leaves the new grain plant in New Columbia, PA Behind bound for Northumberland Long shoot Forward. This plant will be planned to run a grain train daily in the future where NS will bring loaded cars in to the plant and North Shore will help load/unload the cars and then NS will take the empties back to the starting origin point depending the plans. Not sure fully what will happen.

NS 974 with the NS First Responders Safety Train makes it way thru Sunbury, PA. This shot here shows the 911 passing one of the buildings in town (consist not seen) around 2:30am.

Santa Fe 5309 West leads three BN units, 6494, 6830 and 7835 through Pisgah, CA in the afternoon of September 7, 1985.

Amtrak 58 the northbound City of New Orleans with the newest addition of Amtrak phase 7 on an older GE

NKP 759 makes a staged entrance on the Steamtown turntable, with NKP 190 and 514 looking on from the stalls.

SP 7952 east leads the TUHOM (Tucson-Houston) manifest under a classic cantilever signal at the summit in Dragoon, AZ in September 1988.

A very long storage line of Union Pacific power including 5 MP15DC switchers; 1364, 1372, 1354, 1374 and 1357 await the future in Pine Bluff, AR in January 2014.

SP 8528, SP 7313 now lettered for GECX and UP 9671 lead an eastbound Tucson-Houston manifest train in July 2004.

KCS 4621 North leads the MSHKC-15 with the KCS 4006 Veterans Support our Troops unit into the town of Heavener, OK in April 2020.

From 1978-1980, I was blessed to play Baseball for Liberty Christian High School in Huntington Beach, CA. Our school played in the small schools division throughout southern California. Two schools we played away games were Hesperia and Victorville. These games were played at my "Field of Dreams", Lime St. Baseball Park. Located in Hesperia, right next to the Santa Fe/Union Pacific mainline through Cajon Pass to Los Angeles. "If you play, the trains will come." My senior year, (I was the only one out of a class of 25), I circled April 11, 1980 on the calendar. This would be my final away game against Victorville at the Hesperia ballpark. I brought my trusty Pentax K-1000 camera filled with B&W Kodak Plus-X film. I was also the yearbook photographer in 1980. I gave my camera to one of our "Team Moms" Mrs. Hildom to take photos of the game and especially any trains going by. From home plate looking to straightaway centerfield and right field, you had a clear view of trains going by. It was very difficult at the plate trying to concentrate on the pitcher and the ball with a train going by! Eastbound trains would zip by with little warning going downhill toward Victorville. However, westbound trains could be heard for a long time struggling up the steep grade. So on this beautiful spring April afternoon, Coach Riddell put the ball in my hand to pitch this final game. With a comfortable lead in the top of the 7th inning, two outs and nobody on, I knew a westbound train was approaching quickly. I called time, stepped off the mound, to watch UP DD40X 6901 West with three 8000 class SD40-2H units lead the SuperVan toward Los Angeles. Mrs. Hildom captured the moment as I started walking back toward the mound. I pitched a complete game, we came away with a victory and celebrated afterward at the local McDonalds. The bus ride back to school was a happy one.

R613 is roaring down the Poorfork towards NRG with CSX 363 leading the charge, still in its as-delivered YN2 paint scheme. We made it with only 2 minutes to spare; we received notification upon exit from the tunnel by Rhea and rushed down from the house. As we stepped out of the truck, and met another railfan by name of Will Jordan, we heard the horn sound in the distance. Perfect lighting, perfect morning catch.

UP 4014 West is following just behind the UP 8360 West arrives at Deeth, Nevada.

UP Big Boy 4014 West smokes it up as it approaches the Clover Valley grade crossing just south of Wells, Nevada on the former WP trackage.

Framed by the trucks and fuel tank of soon to be rebuilt TASD MP15DC no. 771, KXHR train 101 shoves downgrade into Coster yard with former Southern Railway 2391 in the lead.