Cajon, the site of the old Santa Fe station in the heart of Cajon Pass, sits at the 3,100 foot (945 meters) elevation, and the snow is not usually very deep here. But on occasion, it can get pret... (more)

Union Pacific 4-8-4 844 leads a short passenger train around Sullivan's Curve in southern California's Cajon Pass under skies that were threatening rain. The cold temperatures, however, provided ... (more)

Metrolink San Bernardino Line train 353 hustles past the BNSF power stationed at Kaiser. Train 353 is heading from San Bernardino to Los Angeles, with F59PH 882 up front, and MP36PH-3C 900 on the... (more)

BNSF train D-BARLAC3-30I, a movement of light engines (BNSF ES44DC 7889, ES44C4 6941, Dash 9-44CW 5500, ES44AC 6167, ES44C4 6733 and ES44C4 6949) traveling from Barstow to Los Angeles, makes a bri... (more)

Heading into the sunset is Metrolink 91/Perris Valley Line train 709, making its way west. Metrolink F125 931 is shoving on the rear as the train heads from Perris-South to Los Angeles. (Fullert... (more)

Not many EMC/EMD FT diesels, which pretty much were the locomotive that killed steam, were preserved – just two FTA units and three FTBs, although these Bs had been converted to Steam Heater Car... (more)

Interesting Up Front … And on the Rear!

Accelerating out of Fullerton as it heads to Los Angeles from Chicago, is Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief. This s... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe FP45 5992 (ex-5942, nee-102), teamed with FP45s 5991 and 5998, is on the point of a 14-car Analysts' Special climbing Cajon Pass as the train heads from San Diego to Bak... (more)

As BNSF Railway ethanol unit train U-HERWAT7-22A makes its way to Watson, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, from Hereford, Texas, it meets BNSF train B-LACLAC6-26D (Los Angeles to Full... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train H-KCRI1-23 rolls into Barstow, where the crew that has handled this train across the Needles Sub, having boarded in Needles, will get off to allow a fres... (more)

Roughly 7½ hours earlier, at 6:12 am, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 774 departed San Luis Obispo for San Diego. A little over two-thirds of the way there, CDTX SC-44 2122 and its six-car train... (more)

As Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 slowly makes its way toward the Metrolink mainline at the northern end of the Fairplex (location of the Los Angeles County Fair), a process that will take... (more)

The crew on BNSF Railway train M-BARLAC1-05A has their sun visors down as the train heads west into the setting sun on its way from Barstow CA to Hobart Yard in Los Angeles. BNSF ES44DCs 7718, 77... (more)

Rolling west through Basta toward the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is a BNSF intermodal train. Santa Fe GP60 4021, not yet rebranded with BNSF reporting marks, teamed with an ATSF Dash 8-4... (more)

As Metro-North Hudson Line train 717 departs the Harlem-125th Street station behind P32AC-DM 226, bound for Croton-Harmon, Metro-North Hudson Line train 842 approaches the station heading to Grand... (more)