Up close and in the distance are two Flats Industrial Railroad switchers awaiting the next day's work (although the SW1500 is pretty much where it was when I last saw it two years ago).

Last Friday, shot this Metrolink (train 112) at Van Nuys with a BNSF AC4400CW leading. Since these big orange beasts started rolling out on the Metrolink lines, I'm yet to get a decent shot. Despi... (more)

A Cleveland Works switcher pulls up to a cut of cars (out of frame) to being its next move.

A former UP MP15 awaits repairs on the turntable at museum/contractor Midwest Railway Preservation Society. Photo taken with permission and while wearing full PPE.

The Crystal Springs & Cahuenga Valley Railway was, I believe, a fictional railroad made up by the Travel Town folk in Los Angeles. Back in the 1990s and early 2000s they ran a caboose train on the... (more)

Amtrak's train 774 as seen from the San Clemente Pier.

A pair of F59PHIs (I assume one is a rescue engine added in San Diego, but don't know that for sure) power Amtrak's late Pacific Surfliner 777 through San Clemente.

A Metrolink turn to Oceanside passes through the beach area north of San Clemente Pier.

A rare daylight "Daygo" aka Barstow to San Dieogo manifest, was called today and gave me an excuse to go railfan on the beach.

The First Watson sits temporarily stranded at the Lawndale Sidings (which are actually in Redondo Beach). The crossing gate at Inglewood (behind the photographer) has fallen and is fouling the tra... (more)

After working Chevron, the Saturday relief job from El Segundo to Watson and back climbs Monoco Hill in Lawndale on its way to work Exxon in Torrance. Hope this isn't my last pair of warbonnets on... (more)

The Guadalupe Turn builds air as it prepares for its journey up the California Coast to Oxnard and Guadalupe. Behind the three SD70Ms is a former Santa Fe Topeka Cab GP7u to be leased by the Santa... (more)

Having spent a couple years on the Northwestern Pacific, this Topeka Cab GP7u is now on its way to work for the Santa Maria Valley Railroad in Guadalupe, CA.

Having just made its Downtown Disney stop the red monorail heads back into the park while crossing very non-magical traffic below.

The Saturday Relief Job has the most sought after Watson assigned engine in the lead this day, the one GP40X that I am aware of being in Southern California. Thank you to John Breen for the heads ... (more)