The late afternoon shadows have begun to creep up the sides of a Southern Pacific veteran, ex-SP 9759, as the twice-a-week arrival of Union Pacific's LOF67 pulls into town with the UP 8618 on the ... (more)

The sun has just begun to peak over the local mountains as Metrolink 106, the last inbound train to Los Angeles from Ventura for the morning, makes like a bandit out of Oxnard for its next stop of... (more)

As this afternoon's LOF67 works the yard at Oxnard, Amtrak 777 slips into town with a P42DC on the point as it approaches the station for its scheduled stop.

Amtrak's 40th Anniversary Exhibit Train poses at the Bakersfield station under threatening skies.

Passing a pair of venerable searchlight signals guarding the BNSF's (ex-ATSF) passage onto the Union Pacific at Kern Junction, AMTK 156 guides the Pacific Railroad Society's 75th Anniversary Diamo... (more)

The Pacific Railroad Society's 75th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Special drifts downgrade through Caliente with Amtrak's freshly painted Phase I Anniversary unit, the AMTK 156, on the point of toda... (more)

Quite literally snaking its way downgrade, a northbound Union Pacific intermodal train, likely bound for Brooklyn, Oregon, makes its way through Bealville with the head-end closing in on northern ... (more)

Dusk blankets the sky above Simi Valley as the southbound Coast Starlight highballs town with the private car "Redwood Empire," running with reporting marks of ATSF 33, brings up the mar... (more)

UP 8132 and its heavy manifest find the morning light as the train begins its assault on the first of many grades of Tehachapi while climbing into Ilmon.

San Joaquin Starlights Calls On Bakersfield. More than 380,000 people live in the Central Valley community of Bakersfield, California...and it's no stretch to say almost every one of those ... (more)

Running around their train at Santa Susana in the late afternoon light, the power for today's LOF41, including a touch of authentic Southern Pacific, hustles past the Santa Susana Railroad Depot &... (more)

Things feel "just right" in this 2018 scene as a black-widow painted EMD SD9 sends up a plume of exhaust and the engineer brings the throttle back another notch as the Candy Cane Express... (more)

Things appear to be almost normal this afternoon as Amtrak 712 hustles across one of the rust-colored spans here at Orwood. Almost normal, because if one looks closely between the P42 shoving on t... (more)

Heavily laden with a load of Thanksgiving travelers, a nine-car Pacific Surfliner leans into the curve on its final approach to its Simi Valley station stop.

The crew of the BNSF 8350 have just begun their morning duties of building an outbound grain train has recently been unloaded at a facility near Hughson.