With its trip over the famed Tehachapi Pass complete, BNSF 8397 leads it's Z train downgrade and into Mojave near MP 377. After passing through the small, desert community, the ES44C4 will bank to... (more)

California Steam and Sunkist...Two Things That Just Go Together. Under a blanket of cool, coastal overcast, Fillmore & Western No. 14 works its train west out of Santa Paula and pass Sunkis... (more)

AMTK 11, a P42DC veteran, takes a short spin before being lined for one of the Redondo turntable's "whisker" tracks during its layover in Los Angeles between trips.

It's just after sunset as Amtrak 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, makes its Simi Valley station stop. This evening finds AMTK 503 on the point of the train that has less than an hour running ti... (more)

Plying the final miles to Amtrak's Los Angeles 8th Street Yard, BNSF's "Roaming the American West" business car special passes a Metro light-rail serving facility as the train prepares t... (more)

A thirsty Fillmore & Western No. 14 takes on water between trips at the ex-Southern Pacific Santa Paula depot.

Making a somewhat rare long-tender forward run to Santa Paula, Fillmore & Western No. 14 lets its Southern Pacific 6-chime whistle rip as it approaches the Highway 126 grade crossing near the Sant... (more)

On the first day of the new month, Fillmore & Western No. 14 build pressure in the morning light at the railway's namesake yard. This morning finds the 1913-built steam locomotive fired up for its... (more)

The Signal's Dropped...Let's Highball! With the semaphore signal having just dropped to a clear, the engineer of Fillmore & Western No. 14 prepares his take his train...backwards? In realit... (more)

Making its first westbound trip of the day out of Santa Paula, Fillmore & Western No. 14 passes a pair of repurposed packaging houses that likely saw thousands upon thousands of reefer cars spotte... (more)

Fillmore & Western No. 14 drops the 10AM train downgrade and toward the outskirts of Santa Paula as it prepares to pass Sunkist's Saticoy Lemon Association Plant 3.

As the morning light from the east spills directly onto the tracks at the Fillmore depot, FWRY 14 and her crew work west against the light as they prepare to deadhead to Santa Paula. Today's opera... (more)

Steam Returns to Santa Paula. On a cool, summer morning in the Santa Clarita River Valley...the sound of a Southern Pacific, 6-chime whistle could be heard piercing the stillness of the air... (more)

Making the complicated switch moves at Paso Robles' numerous industries look easy, this evening's edition of the "Rock Job" breaks there power a part as they continue to deliver goods to... (more)

Making a rare appearance on the coast line while assisting the Pacific Surfliner service with a massive increase in ridership following the temporary closure of US 101, CDTX 2051 brings up the rea... (more)