Due to a tunnel collapse in Oregon's Siskiyou Mountains, the Los Angeles to Seattle Coast Starlight has been operating as a much shorter train, since the southern half of the route has been... (more)

A Spectacular Crepuscular! Southern Pacific Railroad began construction on a new 560-acre railroad hump yard in the cities of Colton, Fontana and Rialto in 1971, and it was dedica... (more)

Amtrak 3 heads west from Chicago to Los Angeles. (Yorba Linda, California – May 17, 2025)

Metrolink San Bernardino Line train 351, with MP36PH-3C 900 shoving on the rear, departs the Claremont station on its way from San Bernardino to Los Angeles.

Built in 1927 by the Atchis... (more)

The first Northstar commuter train of the afternoon stops at the first station of its journey to Big Lake. MNRX MP36PH-3S 512, leading this four-car train, was originally owned by Utah’s Front ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner F59PHI 456 is about to take a spin on turntable in the carrier's Redondo Junction Engine Facility, as it is pulled from one of the whisker tracks and moved, via a R... (more)

Union Pacific ES44AC 7896, SD70ACe 8708 and SD70M 4609 cross the Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge 9.6, crossing from Oregon to Washington as it crosses the Columbia River. Also known as BNSF R... (more)

At first glance this appears to be "GMTX 7ZI", but that is because whoever was tasked with applying the roadnumber to this NW2 was not adept at making the curves needed to create a "... (more)

A pair of freight trains await their departure times at Union Pacific's West Colton Yard.

UP SD70ACe 8552 may head east to Arizona and beyond, or it could head north to the northern p... (more)

A trio of Amtrak passenger trains are serviced at the carrier's Redondo Junction facility in Los Angeles, California, on February 21, 2018. From left to right are P42DC 158 on train 3, the westbo... (more)

It is 7:59 pm (19:59) ... and still 91ºF (32.7ºC), as this is the Mojave Desert, after all! ... and Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, meeting an eastbound BNSF ... (more)

Bringing up the markers on San Diego-bound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 1564 is AMTK non-Powered Control Unit 90278 (ex-AMTK F40PH 278). When the prime mover (diesel engine) was removed, they ... (more)

Following the Santa Ana River through Santa Ana Canyon on its trip from Alliance, Texas, heading to Thenard, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is BNSF intermodal train S-ALTSCO1-14. T... (more)

One would presume that Metrolink isn't in a huge rusn for these two new EMD F125 locomotives (SCAX 939 and 942), as this train, BNSF Railway J-SXRLAC9-20A (High/Wide Move; Streator IL to Los Angel... (more)

Departing the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority "L Line" (formerly the "Gold Line") Lake Station, located in the median of Interstate 210, below Pasadena... (more)