The private car "Dagny Taggart" gleams in the morning light as it passes through the wash rack inside Amtrak's 8th Street Coach Yard. The car has just completed a trip on the rear of the... (more)

Tim L. (left) of the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society's 3751 steam crew speaks with a father and son next to the big 4-8-4's drive wheels as the locomotive simmers quietly at Union Stati... (more)

Skittles...Taste The Rainbo...err...P42. With its job of leading the westbound Sunset Limited complete, AMTK 2 leads its train into the wash rack inside Amtrak's 8th Street Coach Yard. Afte... (more)

Preparing Veterans For the Future. Tucked away in downtown Los Angeles, three BNSF GP60's and a Dash-8 look out of place sitting in Metrolink's Keller Yard. The four units are visiting the ... (more)

The Silver Splendor's Final Ride. It was a somber moment at Redondo Junction as many of us on the crew of Santa Fe 3751 watched an old friend - the private car "Silver Splendor" take its fi... (more)

The Future Is Closer Than You Think. SCAX 800 looks sharp in Keller Yard as one of the commuter rail agency's newest locomotives, an EMD F125, sits a stone's toss away on the same track.

Bathing In The Morning Light. As the helicopters of the Los Angeles Police Department catch the first rays of sunlight, Metrolink's sole F40PH sits below in Keller yard ready for another da... (more)

Redondo Junction Nose Study. Old meets new on a cold morning in Los Angeles. A pair of new SC-44 Chargers, soon bound for service on the Pacific Surfliner system, rest near the iconic ex-AT... (more)

UP Dolores Engine Yard

Palm trees, the setting sun and the unmistakable grit of Los Angeles are pictured as a UP and Metrolink train roll through East Redondo.

The Sunday Day Bud Switcher departs Aurant westbound with a long train bound for Gemco Yard in Van Nuys and an assortment of ex-SSW and SP geeps for power.

LOF41 switches cars at Aurant Yard with 4 geeps for power.

Westbound intermodal train approaching UP's East Yard

A San Bernardino-bound Metrolink banks around Union Pacific's Los Angeles Transit Center, better known as LATC, as it makes its way out of the busy metropolitan hub for a trips trip east.

The rear-end of CDTX 2114, a new SC-44 Charger built by Siemens in Sacramento, rests on one of the whisker tracks at the Redondo Turntable as it shares stalls with the AMTK 464 - a soon to be repl... (more)