The sun closes in on the horizon to bring another warm, summer day in Los Angeles to a close as AMTK 507 catches some rays adjacent to the Redondo turntable. Across the pit, an endangered F59PHi l... (more)

Taking The Long Way To Promontory. Well, the closest active rails can get to Promontory anymore: Ogden, Utah. UP 8850 leads a small, seven-car train through the iconic rocks of Chatsworth a... (more)

"Can I have my Hobart Tower well done, please?" The local transients of Los Angeles were happy to abided this order, unfortunately, as seen in blacked-interior and blown out windows of the ... (more)

With a busy morning of hustling commuters into the metropolitan hub of Los Angeles complete, a six-car Metrolink train-set highballs for CMF along the L.A. River. To the right, Metro's crossing of... (more)

The sun continues to rise on a new day in Los Angeles as Metrolink 924 works a double-set along the western bank of the city's namesake river on its way to servicing at Metrolink Central Maintenan... (more)

A pair of outbound Metrolink commuter trains, one bound for the Antelope Valley and the other for East Ventura, board passengers at Los Angeles Union Station as the iconic structure, built in 1939... (more)

Wildflower Explosion in Downtown LA. After completing a trip to Tehachapi the previous Sunday in hopes to capture some spectacular flowers covering the hillsides, which wasn't necessarily t... (more)

A venerable SD70MAC, UP 4166, brings up the rear of a West Colton-bound manifest at Ilmon as its train slowly approaches the "narrows" where it will stop to wait for the northbound ZLCLT.

There's something about a spring morning on Tehachapi that just has that "right" feeling. Such was the case as the sun crept above a row of clouds and spilled onto the length of this sou... (more)

With air rushing from the lead truck and kicking up a slight cloud of ballast dust, BNSF 8022 eases a heavy grain train downgrade and into Woodford with a small splash of orange foliage providing ... (more)

A Worm With An Identity Crises. UP 5288 leads a 13,000-ton, loaded grain train carefully down Clear Creek Ravine and past the long abandoned Tunnel 4 on the 5,900-foot long train's decent t... (more)

With it's mid-train, "swing helpers" having just ducked into the darkness of Tunnel 5 in the background at Cliff, BNSF 8022 leads the headed of this snaking Fresno-bound grain train towa... (more)

While not covering the hills in masses like past springs have produced, splashes of color can still be found in the hills of Tehachapi as found here at Cliff. BNSF 7037 is seen breaking the silenc... (more)

Snaking Out of the Narrows. As the lush, green hills of Tehachapi slowly begin their turn to brown as temperatures across Southern California begin to feel more and more like summer - UP 76... (more)

A Snowy Departure In...Los Angeles? As a passing winter storm continues its trek across the southland, a deadheading set of two Metrolink train's eases out of the commuter rail agency's Cen... (more)