With the iconic bridge over Lake Oroville behind it, UP 9926 leads the lake's namesake local into James on a wonderfully clear afternoon on the southern portion of the Feather River Canyon route.

With the sun having dipped below the horizon, another day in Marysville slowly draws to a close as the rumble of three, General Electric diesel locomotives begins to reverberate off some of the ne... (more)

The WP Doesn't Come By Here Much Anymore...But The UP Does. Framed between a pair of steam-era, Western Pacific searchlight signals still earning their keep - Union Pacific 2592 leads a Nor... (more)

SP LIVES! Well, this is about as close to the Southern Pacific still being alive and operating on an active mainline as one can get these days. The prelude to an intense storm system is pas... (more)

As much of Southern California is slammed by a passing storm front, the skies have begun to clear over the Santa Paula Valley. Those clear skies are briefly interrupted, however, by the rising smo... (more)

Caught between rain showers, the local station's ticket agent is seen patiently waiting for the conductor to return from walking his train. In reality, its a rather dry night (something we've gott... (more)

Warbonnet At Dawn. After nearly a decade of being on display in the California State Railroad Museum's main building, ATSF 347C and it's accompanying "B" unit, F3B 347B, find thei... (more)

The only thing to remind one this afternoon that its fall is a cool breeze blowing down the coast as Amtrak's appropriately named Coast Starlight skirts the Pacific Ocean while passing thro... (more)

A family, all bundled up for the wet, cold weather, smiles for a quick cell phone photo taken by a kind Metrolink security guard with the backdrop of Fillmore & Western Railway No. 14. A 1913-buil... (more)

Sitting on the north leg Metrolink's Montalvo Wye, Fillmore & Western No. 14 pauses in the rain prior to beginning its eastbound journey home for Fillmore.

Despite the rain, a good crowd gathers on the Metrolink platform at East Ventura to take in the site of the 1913-built, Fillmore & Western steam locomotive No. 14 as it makes its annual, rare-mila... (more)

Close to returning to active service for the Fillmore & Western Railway, RS-32 No. 4009 is parked at the shops in the steam locomotive's normal spot to allow it access in and out of the area for t... (more)

With a small rainbow slowly disappearing in the upper left, Fillmore & Western Railway's Alco S6 catches a break in the passing storm clouds as those more threatening loom above the hills in the b... (more)

Rolling across the upper bridge at Tobin, UP 9926 enters sunlight once more after a fairly dark trip down the northern half of the Feather River Canyon in the early morning hours.

Crossing Lake Oroville in the warm, afternoon sunlight, UP 9926 leads a local into James as it exists the iconic 1962-built bridge.