Amtrak northbound San Joaquin No. 717, running this cloudy afternoon with one of the lower-level, ex-NJT comet car sets, calls on the original 1900-built, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railwa... (more)

With a lengthy baretable train strung out behind it, BNSF 5103 heads west as it drops downgrade through Cajon Junction.

The DPU's on Union Pacific's daily, northbound ZLCLT (Los Angeles, Calif. - Lathrop, Calif.) hotshot train twists and turns between Russ and Ravenna as today's heavy train climbs the grade through... (more)

Union Pacific's daily, northbound ZLCLT (Los Angeles, Calif. - Lathrop, Calif.) twists and turns between Russ and Ravenna as today's heavy train climbs the grade through the ex-Southern Pacific's ... (more)

Union Pacific's LOF63 local rolls east down the Santa Paula branch line at Limco on a gloomy, overcast morning as it brings four additional LPG tank cars up the Fillmore & Western Railway's tracka... (more)

Banking into the final curve on its approach to the Santa Paula depot, UP 1007 leads another string of empty, inbound LPG tank cars into Santa Paula to be interchanged with the Fillmore & Western ... (more)

FWRY 3501 leads a string of empty LPG tank cars out of the Loose Caboose area east with a final destination of Fillmore.

With some 10 tank cars and a caboose (serving as a buffer car) on the drawbar, Fillmore & Western's motive power for today made up of a GP35 and F7A trundle down the jointed rails of the ex-Southe... (more)

As the rear of its train clears the Highway 126 grade crossing, FWRY 3501 leads a short string of inbound LPG tank cars for storage as it approaches the semaphore signals at the "Loose Caboos... (more)

A Scene From "Old California." A far cry from plying the rails of its first owner, the Pennsylvania Railroad (ex-PRR 2262), this GP35 still earns its keep now on the Fillmore & Western Rail... (more)

A Little Los Angeles History Hangs On. Making its final descent into Los Angeles, Metrolink 753 drops off the northern end of the Redondo Flyover as it passes Amtrak's locomotive maintenanc... (more)

Let's Try This Again... On April 29, Amtrak's second Phase II anniversary unit, AMTK 130, was leading Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight through the Central Coast agriculture community of ... (more)

Rocking back and forth down the overly worn out right-of-way that makes up the PG spur in Oxnard, UP 1053 and a fellow GP60 make their way back toward the mainline with a single CNW boxcar.

With its work on the PG spur complete, UP 1053 prepares to enter the mainline once more for the trip to Camarillo. This ex-SP GP60 is still wearing it's Southern Pacific "Speed Lettering"... (more)

Making its triumphant return to Southern California after leaving in 2014, and now fully operational, UP 4014 eases across one of the two iconic steel bridges located just east of Victorville as t... (more)