Skittles...Taste The Rainbo...err...P42. With its job of leading the westbound Sunset Limited complete, AMTK 2 leads its train into the wash rack inside Amtrak's 8th Street Coach Yard. Afte... (more)

It's just after sunset as AMTK 463 leads Amtrak "Triple 7" (as the crew likes to call themselves on the radio) along the coast line, seen here skirting Pacific Cost Highway No. 1 and the... (more)

AMTK 451, one of the few remaining F59PHI's still in service on the Pacific Surfliners, leads one of the last editions of Amtrak 777 for the year out of Tunnel 26 and into Simi Valley at last ligh... (more)

It's a beautiful, spring day on Cuesta Pass as the sound of two General Electric locomotives straining to pull a heavy train upgrade echoes off the hillsides. The louder than normal chugging of tw... (more)

The head-end of BNSF 3777's train is seen banking into the curve after exiting Tunnel 9 as the rear of its train completes the circling of itself on the famed Tehachapi Loop.

Snaking Into A New Year. It's the first day of the new year as UP 6846 leads a southbound manifest through some rare Tehachapi snow and toward the first of many tunnels on the train's appro... (more)

Making the final push to Tehachapi Summit, UP 2619 lugs a colorful Herzog ballast train toward up the eastern face of the famous pass as the Monolith cement plant stands in the background.

Preparing Veterans For the Future. Tucked away in downtown Los Angeles, three BNSF GP60's and a Dash-8 look out of place sitting in Metrolink's Keller Yard. The four units are visiting the ... (more)

Black Widow Reflections. Catching a pocket a sunlight between runs out of Lebanon, LLW 5399 glistens on the point of its colorful Candy Cane Express train as it casts a reflection in a near... (more)

The Silver Splendor's Final Ride. It was a somber moment at Redondo Junction as many of us on the crew of Santa Fe 3751 watched an old friend - the private car "Silver Splendor" take its fi... (more)

With a load of happy children and their parents aboard, the last run of the Candy Cane Express for the day departs Lebanon for a trip down part of the Santiam Branch.

As if posed together on purpose, a Saint Louis & Southwestern (SSW) boxcar and ex-SSW 9674, now UP 1011, rest in the yard at Oxnard together a few days before the Thanksgiving holiday.

Banking out of the western portal of Tunnel 26, Amtrak 777 catches the last rays of sunlight as it passes the chard remains of the Rocky Peak Fire. Igniting on November 12 as the massive Woolsey F... (more)

Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight slows to a crawl as it passes through the siding at Moorpark on a cool, fall morning. While this train normally races through town as speeds above 60, today the... (more)

The Future Is Closer Than You Think. SCAX 800 looks sharp in Keller Yard as one of the commuter rail agency's newest locomotives, an EMD F125, sits a stone's toss away on the same track.