Southern Pacific 99...no, not the Daylight...but still really cool. Southern Pacific business car No. 99, the Houston, sits front and center across from the ex-SP Oxnard depot (now U... (more)

Andy Wilkinson of the Fillmore & Western Railway rides the point of the shove (while the UP conductor calls out car lengths to the engineer on the other side of the train) as FWRY 3501 is added to... (more)

Pour the coal to her! As part of the departure of some of the first equipment to leave the Santa Paula Branch Line from the now defunct Fillmore & Western Railway, today's LOF63-18 has fou... (more)

Onward to a New Home. UP 4252, an Electro-Motive Division SD70M built in October of 2000, finds itself on the point of this evening's LOF67-18 as it skirts north into the Carpinteria Bluffs... (more)

Amtrak California No. 2122 takes a break between trips on Pacific Surfliner as waits for more service at Amtrak's Redondo Junction maintenance facility. Also found on one of the turntable w... (more)

Putting some smoke on their stacks as they begin the climb out of the sag at Ferguson's Trestle, DRGW 168 and 425 (in reality, 315) pull their train of vintage cars into the morning light as they ... (more)

Drama at Cresco. A afternoon's worth, or perhaps multiple afternoons worth, of drama continues to unfold after today's wood-burner double header has come to a halt just below the Cresco wat... (more)

Some of the Southern California Railway Museum's largest, and finest, operating locomotives pose for this evening's night photography session - which marked the museum's first.

UP 3885, a 2003 product of the Electro-Motive Diesel, leads today's LOF67-11 north out of Ventura and into the train's first meeting of the Pacific Ocean, seen here at Emma Wood State Beach, on it... (more)

Swaying to a fro on its westbound journey out of Fillmore, FWRY 100 leads this afternoon's train out of town bound for Santa Paula as it slices through some of the last remaining citrus orchards i... (more)

Fillmore & Western Railway No. 100 leads the one of the final mid-day departures out of Fillmore, as operations will cease the following weekend due to the famed shortline not being selected by Ve... (more)

Engineer Bob Mellor prepares to take to take Amtrak 777 out of Simi Valley. Of special interest to model railroaders, today's train includes a long-distance sightseer lounge car in the consist, wh... (more)

50 Years To The Day. Some 50 years ago on this very day, Amtrak was born - saving the American passenger train from being found only in the pages of history. Now, 50 years later, routes tha... (more)

Running exceedingly late (16+ hours), Amtrak 11 highballs Santa Barbara in the morning light.

A late running Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, begins to drop off the Redondo Flyover as the newly restored turntable inside Amtrak's 8th Street mechanical facility looks sharp amo... (more)