Amtrak Super Chief awaits departure in Los Angles

A pair of BNSF Railway diesels, ET44C4 3755 and ES44C4 7014, are tucked away on the trackage connecting the railway's San Bernardino Sub in Commerce (a city in which every building pretty much loo... (more)

Union Pacific GP40-2 1394, the former Saint Louis-Southwestern (Cotton Belt) 7638, sits in the UP's J Yard south of downtown Los Angeles. As with so many Union Pacific locomotive assigned to urba... (more)

Fantasy paint scheme? I think this unit had white lettering that somehow came off. I like the variety. As a modeler I'd rather see some of the many real but ignored paint schemes be offered ins... (more)

Santa Fe Steam on a Santa Fe Turntable

After returning to Los Angeles from 2013's annual San Bernardino Railroad Days display, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 has re... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner F59PHI 456 is about to take a spin on turntable in the carrier's Redondo Junction Engine Facility, as it is pulled from one of the whisker tracks and moved, via a R... (more)

On August 8, 1967 Southern Pacific FP7 6455 and a B-unit arrived with a nine-car No. 99 the Los Angeles-bound Coast Daylight, crossing the ATSF tracks at Mission Junction near the Los Angeles... (more)

A trio of Amtrak passenger trains are serviced at the carrier's Redondo Junction facility in Los Angeles, California, on February 21, 2018. From left to right are P42DC 158 on train 3, the westbo... (more)

The local freight is seen leaving Los Angeles doing 15 MPH in 1937. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 4414 is captured with rods down while traversing the crossovers in Los Angeles. This is Southern Pacific train number two, the Sunset Limited. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Having delivered Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Limited from Chicago to Los Angeles, the power (Santa Fe F45 5920, F45 5921, F7B 308A and steam-generator car 133, decked out for th... (more)

BNSF 710, witnessed here some 27+ years after it was delivered from GE in June 1997. Still wearing its War-bonnet dress (for a very newly merged at the time) Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railroa... (more)

A Union Pacific coal train rolls into East Yard, a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles. A pair of General Electric-built diesels are pulling this train: C30-7 2439 and B23-7 182.
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Built in 1921 by Davenport, City of Los Angeles Harbor Department #31 has been cosmetically restored at its long time home a Travel Town in Los Angeles, California. This engine was actually assign... (more)

UP 5118, looking sharp in fresh paint, leads a westbound local off the ACTA Alameda Corridor Subdivision and onto one of the outside leads adjacent to the Alameda Corridor as an Amtrak Pacific Sur... (more)