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)

Metra 173, looking sharp in Metra's latest new paint scheme, shoves an inbound train of out West Chicago - bound for the Windy City itself.

With its first trip of the day in the books, Fillmore & Western No. 14 is drifting downgrade on the rear of the second train of the day as it heads for the Highway 126 overpass where it will stop ... (more)

The sky has slowly began to clear from its covering of morning, costal overcast and will soon open up to the warm sun as another source of warmth - Fillmore & Western No. 14 - prepares to shove it... (more)

CDTX 2118 trails Amtrak 782 as the train leans into the suer-elevated curve at Milepost 429

A trio of brand new, SC-44 "Chargers," glisten on this rainy morning in downtown Los Angeles as they await their first chance to get out and stretch their legs.

Coming off the photogenic, steel truss bridge at Ventura, CDTX 2113 leads Amtrak 774 south for Los Angeles and ultimately San Diego.

Operating as the largest train on the Pacific Surfliner system, a nine-car, all matching consist of "California cars" (minus one Surfliner painted Superliner...you can't win them all!) makes up Am... (more)

With the addition of multiple cars to its normal six-car consist to help carry the increase in Thanksgiving travelers, Amtrak 782 finds itself with an SC-44 "Charger" locomotive on the south end o... (more)