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)

A Breathtaking Evening. Following a morning filled with sunshine and an afternoon that saw a torrential downpour, those of us photographing the day's BNSF riprap work train as it dumped at ... (more)

Nevada Northern No. 40 cruises back into Ely after making the journey to Ruth to turn the two passenger cars in tow for the following days photographer special.

SCAX 922 prepares to lead a westbound train out of Moorpark on a warm, spring day.

A Union Pacific officer's special cruises past the Amtrak locomotive maintenance facility at Redondo Junction as it heads for its final destination of Long Beach. In the background, the newly rest... (more)

Awakened from its slumber, Nevada Northern No. 93 begins to build steam pressure for today's activities across the railroad.

Into The Storm. With another day of dropping riprap at milepost 207 on the Surfline complete, BNSF 5982 slowly backs out of the work area for the San Clemente pier where a crew change is sc... (more)

Santa Fe Lives On. AMTK 510, a General Electric (GE) B32-8BWH built in 1991 soaks up the late evening light across from the newly restored turntable here at Amtrak's Redondo Junction locomo... (more)