CDTX 2009 is away from home rails as it calls on Amtrak's Los Angeles mechanical shop forces to give it a nose job following a collision with a truck in the Central Valley.

A pair of historic, former Fillmore & Western Railway (FWRY) heavyweight passenger cars began their cross-country trip from Southern California to their new home at the Everett Railroad in Duncanv... (more)

Student Conductor Nicholas Martinez is on point of the this evening's westbound train as Sierra Northern Railway's first annual Christmas train departs the Loose Caboose and heads for Bristel wher... (more)

It's a beautiful day on the Southern California coast line as Amtrak 765, sporting two SC-44 Chargers today, slows on its approach to its next station stop of Carpinteria, Calif.

Having returned to home rails in a resplendent rendition of its bicentennial paint scheme, ATSF 5704 rides the head-end of BNSF Z train as it rolls west near Hodge on its journey to its new home a... (more)

Amtrak's Phase I Anniversary heritage unit, AMTK 161, leads the charge as Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief works up the north end of the Redondo flyover as the 1927-built Sears building provides... (more)

AMTK 187 steps out onto the turntable at Redondo Junction as it prepares to take a spin following mechanical work.

Sierra Northern Railway No. 2666, an RP20BD or "Genset," sways to and fro as it shoves a train of three passenger cars west to Bristel, the railway's western end, before it will travel b... (more)

Amtrak 14, the northbound Coast Starlight, is just an hour into its 1,377 mile journey to Seattle as it slices its way through the rock formations in Chatsworth, Calif., as it prepares to d... (more)

CN 5745 looks out of place in Central/Southern California as it shoves hard on the rear of a Union Pacific, West Colton-bound manifest that has just begun to tackle the grades of Tehachapi as it l... (more)

Winter on Tehachapi's Northern Slope. While Tehachapi's southern slope is known to receive the occasional dusting of snow if the timing is right, the lower elevation of the lower slope make... (more)

Canadian National No. 5745, an EMD SD75I built in 1997, is far from home as it brings up the rear of a of a West Colton-bound manifest that is tackling the Tehachapi Loop on a cold, winter's day o... (more)

UP 5106, built by the Electro Motive Division for the Union Pacific Railroad in September of 2002, finds itself on the point of a rather rare train for these parts. Running as the IOALBR-30, this ... (more)

On a warm morning on the first day of July, Amtrak 14 sails past CP Davis and approaches the movie studio buried deep in the Santa Susana Hills as it approaches its next station stop of Simi Valle... (more)

Goat Boats at Dawn. BNSF 1078, a 1996 product of General Electric, catches the first light of the day at Oro Grande as it, along with a fellow Heritage 1 painted Dash-9, a warbonnet and two... (more)