David Carballido-Jeans Photography

11/23/2021

Racing westward along the Crookton Cutoff, CP 6644 leads a Q-train as the four motors kick it to 70 MPH near Williams. CP 6644 is painted in Royal Canadian Air Force "Spitfire" fighter planes paint scheme, which pays tribute to the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.

10/27/2021

The last rays of sunlight have produced vibrant colors in the sky over the eastern Mojave Desert. As the light fades away, the headlights of the BNSF #8028 illuminate the steel rails near Cadiz, CA as it, and three other motors, pull a heavy intermodal train from the Port of Long Beach.

10/21/2021

A Metra commuter train departs Downtown Chicago.

09/09/2021

7,900 feet of train is being pulled through curves of Kingman Canyon as three GE locomotives hustle this San Bernardino, CA to Chicago, IL Z6 up the 1.5% grade.

09/07/2021

The morning sun hits the nose of the BNSF 7540 as it emerges out of Nelson Tunnel. Nelson Tunnel is the only double track tunnel built by the Santa Fe. With the triple track project of Cajon Pass, resulting in the daylighting of two tunnels, Nelson became the only tunnel on BNSF's Southern Transcon.

09/03/2021

With the morning sun rising over the eastern parries, a pair of BNSF GEs motors descend down the Palmer Divide on empty grain shuttle as they traverse the last 45 miles of the trip into Denver. In the background, rain clouds from the previous night linger in front of Pikes Peak; standing at 14,115 feet tall.

10/17/2019

UP 4014, the only 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" steam locomotive in operation, pulls a 25 car long passenger special over the 3,800 ft high summit of Cajon Pass on Oct. 12, 2019. Fans from all over came out in drones in order witness this rare machine make a historic trip across Southern California's high desert. The passenger special was held for the Rail Giants Museum, where UP 4014 was before restoration, and was a weekend trip from West Colton to Barstow, and back to West Colton the following day. All ticket proceeds went directly back to the museum.

11/04/2017

The early morning rays of sunlight warm the cab of the BNSF 8278 as it descends down the eastern slope of the Arizona Divide between the control points of Darling. With a mile long string of empty well cars for storage, the two GE motors notch out of the famous Darling Sag with the San Francisco Mountains looming in the background under stormy conditions.

10/30/2017

Looking down on the famous Crozier Canyon, a SD70ACe motor leads a loaded auto train through the S-curve within the heart of the Canyon as the two units grind up towards Yampai Summit.

10/06/2017

On a mid November day, the mercury is hovering around 25 degrees as the sun slowly rises over the tops of the Coconino pine trees. In the distance, the sound rumbling of heavy machinery begins to get louder, and louder. Soon, the sound becomes identifiable as General Electric made locomotives. Here, two of these 4,400 horsepower locomotives slowly move through the grade out of Flagstaff on this double stack train. Crawling at about 20 MPH, this train, bound for the On-dock Terminal of Southern California (Long Beach, Calif.), is carrying containers full of grain products to be exported to Asian markets.

09/28/2017

09/28/2017

On a rare occasion, the Grand Canyon Railway will run their Alcos locomotives on their trains to the Grand Canyon. Per the request of a photo charter happening on the line, the Alcos pulled the Canyon Limited instead of the F40 locomotives. Here, GCRY 6793 pulls out of Quivero after being "robbed" by the cowboys that board the the train to scare the passengers.