Blasting out of Tunnel 28 as it begins its accent up Santa Susana Pass, SCAX 857 has Metrolink 117 well in hand as leads its train full of commuters heading home from downtown Los Angeles closer t... (more)

On the last National Train Day to be held at Los Angeles Union Station, unknown at the time, Santa Fe 3751 is posed for a series at photos with a fully restored Railway Express Agency deliver truc... (more)

Passengers onboard today's southbound Coast Starlight were likely a bit worried as the passed through the small town of Santa Margarita looking up to a wall of smoke from the raging Cuesta Fire. L... (more)

Taking a look back through the archives after seeing this unit a week ago (Nov. 26, 2016), I stumbled upon some of my first quality shots of the JDHX 50 way back in 2011 that I had previously thou... (more)

Nothing says comradery on the railroad likes a pair of engineers giving one another a wave as they race past each other somewhere secluded. Such is the case this warm, summer afternoon at Waldorf ... (more)

Curving to the north once more after traveling south upon exciting Tunnel 2, the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Blue Unit circus train eases downgrade and into the town of Caliente on a hot sum... (more)

Located on the outskirts of the small community of Pixley, one of the J.D. Heiskell & Co. grain facilities stands tall against the sky on the flat floor of the Central Valley. As one drives by thi... (more)

It's a typical overcast, summer morning in downtown Los Angeles as BNSF 5662 leads Metrolink 106 along the town's namesake river the final miles toward Union Station.

Built in March of 1957, JDHX 50 first saw service on the Nickle Plate Railroad as NKP 342. Some 59 years later and after seeing service on both the Norfork & Western and Norfork Southern, the vete... (more)

Climbing the relatively easy grade out of Mojave and into Tehachapi Pass, UP 2582, a new Tier 4 unit, leads the MWCRVC-08 into the snow capped hills of Monolith as it approaches the summit.

Climbing out of downtown Los Angeles, Amtrak train No. 961-30, carrying (at the time) President Joe Boardman and his aides to Modesto, curves to the east on the Redondo Flyover as it crosses the L... (more)

It's a clear day in the San Fernando Valley as the whine of three Electro-Motive Diesel's briefly break the distance sound of traffic on Highway 118. Lugging today's 50-car LOF65 upgrade toward Tu... (more)

Carrying on the heritage of the Penn Central, EMDX 7101 now also carries some of the latest locomotive prime-mover technology as part of the GP22ECO program. Working a cut of hoppers this afte... (more)

Working hard to get its train up Santa Susana Pass, UP 4853 and three sister SD70M's slug the LOF67-23 upgrade and out of Tunnel 27 toward the eastern portal of the 7,369-foot long Tunnel 27 that ... (more)

With the conclusion of Fullerton Railroad Days fast approaching, BNSF 4279, ATSF 3751, AMTK 90208 and AMTK 42 have made their move out of the Fullerton display track and out onto the main in prepa... (more)