Flying past the Metrolink Commerce Platform, a pair of GP60M's running as light engines head west toward Hobart Yard in Los Angeles.

Approaching the Commerce Metrolink Platform, the westbound BNSF loaded ethanol train is on the last lap from the Midwest as it nears its destination at Watson Yard near the L.A. harbor.

A few miles east of Hobart Yard in Los Angeles, a pair of BNSF 3GS21C switch engines shove a cut of double stack cars across Bandini Blvd and into the BNSF Commerce Intermodal Facility.

A brisk morning in the high desert near Hesperia finds one of BNSF's newest deliveries from GE leading a westbound doublestack train over the "natural" flyover at Frost on the Cajon Sub.

On their first run to the West coast, a three unit set of UP SD70ACes fresh from the builder are the power on a doublestack container train as it enters the Alameda Corridor on the last lap to the... (more)

Approaching the town of Tehachapi, detouring southbound Amtrak train #11 climbs the last few miles of the mountain grade as it passes the Cable crossover.

Passing through Sandcut, this BNSF freight extra is heading back toward Bakersfield. These two ES44DC locomotives were seen earlier in the day running light to Caliente to retrieve a cut of cars l... (more)

Between Warren and Mojave, detouring southbound Amtrak train #11 passes beneath the venerable SP signal bridge at milepost 377, a structure with days that are now numbered as signal replacements t... (more)

Detouring Amtrak train #11 climbs the grade on Tehachapi Pass as it approaches Tunnel 2 between Caliente and Bealville.

Passing beneath the SP cantilever signal bridge at Sandcut, a northbound UP intermodal heads into Bakersfield where a new crew will board.

Winding through the curves at Samdcut, a northbound BNSF doublestack container train is nearing Bakersfield, and will continue up California's lush central valley toward the bay area.

Between Mojave and Rosamond, detouring southbound Amtrak train #11 is making good time across the high desert as it heads toward Los Angeles.

Just a few miles outside of Los Angeles, an eastbound UP doublestack container train is getting underway on its trip east over the Sunset Route as it heads through the Alhambra Trench on an early ... (more)

Passing through the Hinda area in San Timoteo Canyon, an eastbound UP doublestack container train is nearing the top of the grade at Beaumont, and it will soon be downhill running across the deser... (more)

Digging hard into the grade on Beaumont Hill, an eastbound UP intermodal train with a brand new EMD locomotive on the point is approaching the Hinda crossovers in San Timoteo Canyon.