BNSF empty flats head East ahead of the rain at Bacon Island Road.

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Metrolink, southern California’s commuter rail operation, began operating on October 26, 1992. It didn’t take long for this operation to expand, and on ... (more)

A late afternoon southbound Amtrak Surfliner cuts through busy Del Mar, California on a cool April evening.

BNSF train leaving Riverbank and entering Modesto.

UP and BNSF trains meet just west of Caliente.

A recently repainted GE leads this empty grainer southbound on Main 2 past Marcel.

BNSF 3935 east exits the lower Victorville narrows in the late evening.

BNSF SD70ACe 9022 leads an eastbound stack train through Oro Grande on a windy afternoon in the Mojave Desert.

Westbound bare tables led by two Dash nines

One quickly realizes they're old and out of shape when climbing to the hilltops in Moabi Regional Park but in the end it was worth it. BNSF 7640 leads a westbound manifest towards Needles and a c... (more)

Two ES44C4s bracket a Dash 9 on westbound stacks in the late afternoon light at Klinefelter.

The coastal fog is rolling in over the hills by San Luis Obispo as a late Coast Starlight makes it's way over the Stenner Creek Viaduct.

Union Pacific Eastbound just past the Norden snowsheds on the way to the big hole.

Southbound BNSF No. 8142 with a mixed manifest gets the green to proceed to Barstow. Westbound Union Pacific No. 5937 and Union Pacific No. 5839 wait their turn to proceed to Palmdale.

This winters rains have transformed the Solimar Burn area of 2 years ago from a moonscape into a garden. A southbound baretable intermodal rolls along the beach on the Coast Route to long beach.