A northbound CalTrain Capital Corridor train heads through the salt swamps of Alviso on a September evening.

Amtrak California No. 2122 takes a break between trips on Pacific Surfliner as waits for more service at Amtrak's Redondo Junction maintenance facility. Also found on one of the turntable w... (more)

Engineer Bob Mellor prepares to take to take Amtrak 777 out of Simi Valley. Of special interest to model railroaders, today's train includes a long-distance sightseer lounge car in the consist, wh... (more)

Cold But Happy. Amtrak Train 953 (IDTX 4608, Siemens, SC-44 leading) was in Kalamazoo, Michigan on early and frigid morning of Tuesday, January, 26, 2021. The train was performing high spee... (more)

The calm before the storm. The sun rises on storm clouds rolling into Southern California on what is to be the first substantial rain in California since last winter. Though it won't cure the drou... (more)

IDTX 4620 heads west after departing Union Station.

IDTX 4613 nears it's station stop at Gilman, IL.

Running with a somewhat uncommon locomotive on the southward facing end of the train (usually led by a cabcar), Amtrak 774 passes the Santa Susana Railroad Depot & Museum on its southbound trip to... (more)

The future of VIA Rail. One of VIA Rail's new Charger locomotives is at the Montreal Maintenance Centre, the day after an entire Charger trainset arrived directly from Siemens' factory in C... (more)

Southbound San Joaquin leaving Modesto Ca.

It looks like the additional member in the cab of today's Amtrak 777 is really pondering something as the train prepares to exit the sweeping curve just west of Camarillo.

Sunsetting View at Sunset Seat. As Coaster/North County Transit District (NCTD) Train 661 (NCTC 5001, Siemens SC-44 leading) crosses the cliffs of Sunset Seat in Del Mar, California on the ... (more)

A northbound Amtrak California train hugs the coastline of the San Pablo Bay during the last few minutes of daylight.

Coaster 689 heads along the Del Mar Bluffs as the power passes a couple surfers heading towards the ocean.

Amtrak 717 departs Bakersfield with a Charger on the north end.