On a cool, May afternoon along the Southern California coast...a rather odd Amtrak train makes its way down the ex-Southern Pacific coast line with a final destination of Los Angeles. Originating ... (more)

The Oxnard Local Caboose Returns! Union Pacific GP60's No. 1051 and 1150 are seen leading a special run of the LOF63 down the Santa Paula branch line, owned and operated by the Fillmore & W... (more)

133-Year-Old SP Station Meets Ex-SP Power. Union Pacific GP60 No. 1051, built in 1991 as Southern Pacific No. 9752, passes the 1887-built, Southern Pacific depot at Santa Paula as it leads ... (more)

Snaking its way east after passing through the Loose Caboose area, Fillmore & Western GP35 No. 3501 puts on a brief smoke show as the engineer notches up the power to bring a train of 10 tank cars... (more)

Beginning its climb up the western slope of Bellio Hill, Fillmore & Western GP35 No. 3051 and F7(A) No. 100 lead a 10 car, empty tank car train (and required buffer car) east as they head for stor... (more)

Revenue Freight Returns. With the beautiful Heritage Valley providing the backdrop, Fillmore & Western No. 3501 and its train of 10 tank cars (and one buffer car) clear Highway 126 as they ... (more)

With its job shoving a string of 10 tank cars into storage complete, Fillmore & Western 1059 leads a sole caboose, which served as a buffer car for the move, out of the railway's only tunnel back ... (more)

Easing through the siding past the Santa Susana depot, UP 2315 leads the LOF67 north prior to coming to a stop to wait for the passage of Amtrak 784.

Crossing US 101 with the sun to its back, Amtrak 507 heads up this evening's Amtrak 11 as it passes through Ventura on Independence Day.

After patiently waiting in the siding an Ansel, with the rear of its train actually hanging out onto the main forcing the detouring Coast Starlight to wait, UP 7367 gets its heavy manifest back un... (more)

Sunrise at Oxnard finds the LOF63, utilizing a patched ex-Southern Pacific GP60, hard at work switching cars and preparing to bring the next string of autoracks out of the UP yard and out onto the... (more)

SVGX 8611, built in October of 1952 for the Santa Fe Railway, rolled out of EMD's shops as the ATSF 2797. Following its renumbering by the Santa Fe to 2156, the unit was purchased by Savage and ke... (more)

SCAX 902 heads up Metrolink 117 this evening as it pounds the switch at Strathearn on its journey west to East Ventura.

The thundering of an EMD primer mover fills the rising walls of Soledad Canyon as SCAX 852, leading Metrolink 209 this morning, exits Tunnel 19 on its journey east to Lancaster.

Reenactors playing the role of a conductor and his assistant transport the group of photographers on hand for this year's annual Rail Giants Train Museum Night Photography Session back in time thr... (more)