It's not very ofther that the cars don't bunch up on the right side trying to beat the train. Maybe a set of gates is warranted?

Kicks up quite a bit of dust on 'A' Street.

Pacific Surfliner 774 shoves south this morning, crossing SR 166.

UP Coast Line, Surf CA, at the Lompoc Industrial Lead. The conductor is clearing the derail as the crewman walks back toward the locomotive having realigned the switch to the main. GP60 # 1162 - sporting a level of graffiti that is becoming the standard livery of UP in this region - is taking a ...

UP Coast Line, Guadalupe CA @ Brown Road a few hours ago. A little bit of everything here.

Just a plain ol' split crossbuck. Once very common, but near impossible to find now.

Those lights look a bit low if a truck comes along

1948. I've not seen a crossing quite like this one

Thought I'd combine the crossing picture with the train picture and toss in a future Darwin Award winner. Let's see: 250,000 pound loco, and 8 cars that can load out to 286,000 each on a 2.2% coming out of the hills....

A trio of UP DPU crawl toward the switch at Bealville CA, waiting for the green to rejoin the main, and go add power to a stalled freight at Cliff.