Metrolink train 815, making its way from downtown San Bernardino to Oceanside, departs its stop in Orange. Metrolink F125 917, shoving on the rear of the train, is seen under a heavy blanket of s... (more)

Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard opened in 1972, and for use on the hump the railroad purchased six SD38-2s to be mated with slugs built from retired Alco C-628s and C-630s. But the SP kept ex... (more)

Santa Fe Railway’s flagship freight train, the hot Super C, has just begun its daily high-speed trip from Los Angeles to Chicago with a load of piggyback trailers on flat cars. One of th... (more)

Amtrak train 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, is stopped at the train’s first station stop to load passengers. Amtrak P42DC 25 (MUed with P42DC 50) has a clear signal this evening but i... (more)

Brookville Equipment Corporation BL20CG 259 (rebuilt from MEC GP38 259) is seen here demonstrating on southern California’s Pacific Harbor Line’s Pier A in Wilmington (a part of the city of Lo... (more)

Passing through Guangzhou, China, is one of the country's first high-speed trains - a CRH1A electric multiple unit (EMU) trainset. The CRH1 EMU, also known as Hexie (meaning "Harmony"),... (more)

Union Pacific's Chicago & North Western Heritage engine, SD70ACe 1995 (ex-UP 8522), leads a shipper's special, SYULB-25, heading to Long Beach from Yuma AZ) past CP Alameda (while crossing Alameda... (more)

Three of BNSF Railway’s 25th Anniversary ES44AC locomotives headed east over Cajon Pass this day: BNSF 6111 was the second unit in train Z-SBDWSP8-23, BNSF 6017 led train O-SBDTOP (consisting o... (more)

Weather reports were stating that southern California’s San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains we to expect snow down to the 2,000-foot level. So, as often happens when there is snow that low... (more)

Rolling through the Mormon Rocks, BNSF Railway S-LPCSCO2-22 (Intermodal Stacks; Logistics Park Chicago IL to Long Beach CA), behind ES44C4 6933, ES44DC 7876 and ES44C4 8263 (and with ES44AC 6227 o... (more)

BNSF Railway train O-SBDTOP1-23, powered by Anniversary ES44AC 6017 (1/10th of the fleet of BNSF Anniversary engines), is about to crest the Summit of Cajon Pass as it heads back to Topeka after s... (more)

Rolling off the Palmdale Cutoff, a 78-mile line opened in 1967 (nearly 55 years ago!) to allow some Southern Pacific traffic to bypass congested Los Angeles, on which trains from the SP’s Sunset... (more)

The bulk of BNSF Railway’s business car fleet arrived in southern California on January 27, when train O-TOPBAR1-27 arrived in Barstow CA from Topeka KS. These cars were used for a Berkshire Ha... (more)

It was supposed to snow quite a bit on Cajon Pass, but arriving early in the morning proved the old axiom about the unreliability of predicting the weather. The science of meteorology is better t... (more)

Metrolink train 600, the first southbound train out of Los Angeles heading south to Orange County and Oceanside, rounds the last curve before arriving at the station in Orange on 2/22/22. This lo... (more)