SP SW1200 2287 splits old Pacific Electric crossbucks at 186th Street as it brings a train of empty tank cars up the West Santa Ana Branch to the Continental Oil Company (Conoco) refinery in Param... (more)

The setting sun glistens off the nose of this westbound Chessie freight.

Santa Fe GP30 3265 (ex-1265) leads four GP35s on a westbound through Fullerton, CA on New Year’s Eve 1974.

Santa Fe U30CG 8001 (a former passenger diesel, ex-401) leads two SD45s and a U36C on a very short westbound San Bernardino to Los Angeles local (which will, no doubt, pick up more cars before it ... (more)

A solid set of Santa Fe B36-7s brings a hot piggyback train west toward Los Angeles.

Santa Fe B36-7 7491 leads all three of the road’s B39-8 diesels down the center of the 210 Freeway in Pasadena, CA on March 16, 1987. This is now the light rail “Gold Line” from Pasadena to... (more)

Modesto & Empire Traction 70-tonner 602 (bought new in 1952) works the mainline with a westbound freight in Modesto, CA on September 10, 1982.

Santa Fe GP35 3420 (ex-1420) heads west through Esperanza in southern California’s Santa Ana Canyon on July 16, 1973. Today, this line is triple-tracked and the scenery is nowhere near as rural... (more)

Santa Maria Valley 70-tonner 70 and U6B 60 head to Guadalupe, on California’s central coast, from Santa Maria to pick up cars at the Southern Pacific interchange on July 1, 1976.

Santa Maria Valley 70-tonners 20 and 10 on a caboose hop from Santa Maria to Guadalupe on California’s central coast to work the sugar refinery on January 26, 1978.

SSW Bicentennial SD45T-2 9389 approaches the Santa Fe crossing at Colton, CA in December 1977

SP SD40T-2 8305 is about to pass under its train as it heads downgrade around the famed Tehachapi Loop on August 31, 1977. Midtrain helpers are SP 9084 and 8468, along with BN RCC 108.

The sun is beginning to burn through the morning fog as Santa Fe Dash 8-40CWs 800, 802 and 804 make their first trip westbound to Los Angeles on April 17, 1992.

UP SD40-2 3221 leads a DD35 and SD45 westbound up Cajon Pass at Devore, CA on March 19, 1978.

SP U25B 6737 (ex-7537) is westbound at Pomona, CA on February 16, 1977.