Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 blasts through the "moonscape" just north of Victorville on May 14th, 2012. The train is heading to the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 ascends Cajon Pass at Blue Cut on May 14th, 2012. The colorful train is headed to Arizona's Grand Canyon.

To celebrate the American Bicentennial, a rolling museum of American artifacts was assembled to tour the country by rail in 1975 and 1976. The American Freedom Train was pulled by three different... (more)

Union Pacific train IGSDIX 23 (Intermodal; Global Gateway South CA - Dallas TX; Extra) threads its way through the hundreds of windmill electrical generators as it passes the Amtrak station at Wes... (more)

In West Palm Springs, California, Union Pacific's ZLAMQ 24 (UPS, Expedited Intermodal; Los Angeles CA to Mesquite TX) approaches the Amtrak station. ES44AC 7716 is on the headend of this eastboun... (more)

One of the plant switchers at the Riverside Cement plant in Oro Grande, California, is Webb Asset Management (WAMX) GP35 3510. Built by EMD in April 1965 as Western Pacific 3014, it was later par... (more)

Running five hours late, Amtrak train #3, the "Southwest Chief," rushes through Frost, just south of Victorville, California, as it ticks off the last 119 miles of its 2265-mile trip from Chicago ... (more)

Most of the trains operated by BNSF Railway between Los Angeles and Barstow are intermodal trains. Relief from these is provided by a few trains headed into and out of Watson, California, that fe... (more)

A Union Pacific intermodal train heading from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Long Beach, California, passes through the Mojave Narrows area (known as Frost) just south of Victorville, California, on Mar... (more)

At Frost, just south of Victorville, California, the old Santa Fe mainline has a "natural" crossover in order to have trains orient trains for the left-hand running typical on Cajon Pass, a few mi... (more)

San Diego Northern "Coaster" commuter train #653 crosses the lagoons in the Sorrento Valley in northern San Diego, California, as it heads from downtown San Diego to Oceanside on January 27th, 201... (more)

The Amtrak 40th Anniversary Exhibit Train sits at the station in San Diego, California, on December 3; 2011. The power has been reversed, as the train was towed into town the night before behind ... (more)

Union Pacific 4-8-4 844 passes through the "moonscape" just north of Victorville, California, as it heads for Yermo on November 19, 2011. (Coincidentally, the camera assigned this image the name ... (more)

Union Pacific train SWCYR 19, with 4-8-4 844 on the point, rounds Cajon Pass' famed Sullivan's Curve on November 19, 2011. The train is running from West Colton Yard, in Bloomington, to Yermo, ju... (more)

On October 13, 2011, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #566 skirts the Pacific Ocean on its way from Los Angeles to San Diego, California. On this morning, the train has F59PHI 457, resplendent in ... (more)