Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is deadheading from Los Angeles Union Station to the carrier’s Redondo Junction facility for servicing, as it will depart this evening for C... (more)

Backing into Los Angeles Union Station is Amtrak train 14, the northbound Coast Starlight. This train will depart Los Angeles for Seattle within the hour, with AMTK P42DCs 174 and 157 pull... (more)

Nearly 83 years after it opened (as Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal), the entrance foyer and the great hall of Los Angeles Union Station still looks fantastic. In fact, as someone who has be... (more)

At Metrolink’s Keller Yard, near Union Station, there is still a deadline of unused power – nineteen EMD F59PHs and F59PHIs, including two LTEX F59PHs, still in GO Transit colors – stored aw... (more)

With downtown Los Angeles looming in the background, BNSF Railway train S-LPCLHG1-31 crosses Washington Boulevard as it transitions from BNSF’s San Bernardino Sub to the Alameda Corridor, a 20-m... (more)

For a city with the reputation of being a flat slab of concrete, Los Angeles is surprisingly hilly and green to those who are unfamiliar with it. Sure, the Los Angeles River, as seen here, is a c... (more)

Old vs. new as ATSF 3751 heads north passing Keller Yard. On the right, a group of F125s waiting activation to service sit silently with F40 #800.

Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is seen at Los Angeles Union Station four minutes after it arrived on Track 13 … and twenty minutes before it was due to arrive at 8:00 am! ... (more)

The trainset from this morning’s Southwest Chief has deadheaded to Amtrak’s Redondo Junction facility for servicing. AMTK P42DC 161, recently repainted into the carrier’s original pa... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 765 (San Diego to Goleta), with CDTX SC-44 "Charger" 2110 pushing the six-car train, is about to make the left turn at Mission Tower and head into stub-en... (more)

The early-morning sun has just gotten high enough to bath Amtrak's incoming Southwest Chief in a golden light as it arrives at its final destination â Los Angeles. Leading the train this ... (more)

This segment on the Torrance Industrial Lead became a dumping ground for tires, which provide a foreground backdrop for the El Segundo Local as they head to Phillips 66 to switch out cars.

On a scorching hot near triple digit temp afternoon, the crew on this KG1LA is likely enjoying their A/C.

KG1LA snakes along the LA River, just a couple miles from its destination in East LA.

A BNSF SD40-2 leads Amtrak 3's deadhead move up the Roundhouse Lead on their way to 8th Street Yard.