As Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 564 passes through CP Maple in the city of Orange, California, Metrolink commuter train 683 departs the commuter station there. CDTX SC-44 2114 is leading the s... (more)

On February 28, 1998, a welded rail train was parked on one of the sidings at Basta, in western Fullerton, California. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Dash 8-40BW 521 (ex-ATSF 521) and ATSF GP40X 38... (more)

Three more Metrolink F125s are on their way to Metrolink’s Keller Yard in downtown Los Angeles, as BNSF train J-SXRLAC9-14 ferries SCAX 925, 941 and 906 from the EMD plant in Muncie IN to LA. Thi... (more)

BNSF Cut The Weeds Down! Departing the Fullerton Transportation Center is Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 768, just over halfway between its origination point of Goleta and its de... (more)

A trio of EMD diesels is parked at the Union Pacific’s West Anaheim Yard on February 16, 2020. UPY GP15-1 550 (ex-C&NW 4405), UP GP40-2 1469 (ex-SSW 7637) and UP GP40-2 1413 (ex-SP 7662, and stil... (more)

Metrolink train 687 accelerates out of the station in Orange, California, as it carries commuters between Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo and Los Angeles. Metrolink F125 915 is shoving this train, ha... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-NYCLAC6-12 rolls through Basta, a location west of the passenger station in Fullerton, California. A pair of Norfolk Southern diesels (NS AC44C6M 4223 and Dash 9-44CW 9751), ... (more)

Assigned to Union Pacific’s West Anaheim Yard is UP GP40-2 1413. This engine, teamed with GP40-2 1469 and GP15-1 Y550, is the last former SP GP40-2 still in SP colors (but with UP patches, obviou... (more)

Assigned to Union Pacific’s West Anaheim Yard is UP GP40-2 1413. This engine, teamed with GP40-2 1469 and GP15-1 Y550, is the last former SP GP40-2 still in SP colors (but with UP patches, obviou... (more)

Heading from San Diego to Goleta (just north of Santa Barbara, hence the inclusion of the larger city’s name in the destination board on the front – or, in this case, the rear – of "Charger&q... (more)

Holding on Track 2, waiting for a clear signal indication (a hot eastbound intermodal train just overtook it on Track 1), is BNSF ET44C4 3751 and its train – the Los Angeles to Barstow freight tha... (more)

A colorful consist led Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train Z-WSPLAC7-30 when it was photographed at Martinez Siding, just east of Cajon Pass' Summit, making its way from Willow Springs I... (more)

Union Pacific freight train M-NPWC2-22 passes through the iconic Mormon Rocks, dusted with snow, as it ticks off the last few miles of its journey from North Platte, Nebraska, to West Colton Yard,... (more)

A cut of three tank cars rolls by the locomotives of BNSF local L-CAL0081-12, the Second La Mirada, as the crew performs a "flying switch" move. The engines needed to get on the east end of these... (more)

Union Pacific NW2 1081 was built in April 1948, and photographed in the railroad’s East Yard in Commerce, California, on March 30, 1983. This is not the original paint job, but still, the 35-year... (more)