Running a number of hours late after being stuck behind a Metrolink train that unfortunately struck and killed a trespasser in the San Fernando Valley, Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight c... (more)

In the late afternoon golden light, Amtrak 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, continues its climb up Tehachapi as it leans into the well photographed curve here just short of Tunnel 2.

With it's crew change complete, the San Joaquin Starlight highballs Bakersfield's original, ex-Southern Pacific station for its run up the Central Valley. In reality, this is Amtrak's north... (more)

Banking into the curve on its approach to the north end of the siding, UP 8618 hustles this afternoon's passage of the LOF67 closer to Oxnard where it will set out a number of cars before continui... (more)

Reliving The Golden Days At Golden Hour. For those that have been here before, Oxnard isn't necessarily a place where you want to prop up your boots and hang out for long when it comes to r... (more)

The late afternoon shadows have begun to creep up the sides of a Southern Pacific veteran, ex-SP 9759, as the twice-a-week arrival of Union Pacific's LOF67 pulls into town with the UP 8618 on the ... (more)

The sun has just begun to peak over the local mountains as Metrolink 106, the last inbound train to Los Angeles from Ventura for the morning, makes like a bandit out of Oxnard for its next stop of... (more)

As this afternoon's LOF67 works the yard at Oxnard, Amtrak 777 slips into town with a P42DC on the point as it approaches the station for its scheduled stop.

Amtrak's 40th Anniversary Exhibit Train poses at the Bakersfield station under threatening skies.

Passing a pair of venerable searchlight signals guarding the BNSF's (ex-ATSF) passage onto the Union Pacific at Kern Junction, AMTK 156 guides the Pacific Railroad Society's 75th Anniversary Diamo... (more)

The Pacific Railroad Society's 75th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Special drifts downgrade through Caliente with Amtrak's freshly painted Phase I Anniversary unit, the AMTK 156, on the point of toda... (more)

Quite literally snaking its way downgrade, a northbound Union Pacific intermodal train, likely bound for Brooklyn, Oregon, makes its way through Bealville with the head-end closing in on northern ... (more)

Dusk blankets the sky above Simi Valley as the southbound Coast Starlight highballs town with the private car "Redwood Empire," running with reporting marks of ATSF 33, brings up the mar... (more)

UP 8132 and its heavy manifest find the morning light as the train begins its assault on the first of many grades of Tehachapi while climbing into Ilmon.

San Joaquin Starlights Calls On Bakersfield. More than 380,000 people live in the Central Valley community of Bakersfield, California...and it's no stretch to say almost every one of those ... (more)