Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is deadheading from Los Angeles Union Station to the carrier’s Redondo Junction facility for servicing, as it will depart this evening for C... (more)

Backing into Los Angeles Union Station is Amtrak train 14, the northbound Coast Starlight. This train will depart Los Angeles for Seattle within the hour, with AMTK P42DCs 174 and 157 pull... (more)

Nearly 83 years after it opened (as Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal), the entrance foyer and the great hall of Los Angeles Union Station still looks fantastic. In fact, as someone who has be... (more)

At Metrolink’s Keller Yard, near Union Station, there is still a deadline of unused power – nineteen EMD F59PHs and F59PHIs, including two LTEX F59PHs, still in GO Transit colors – stored aw... (more)

With downtown Los Angeles looming in the background, BNSF Railway train S-LPCLHG1-31 crosses Washington Boulevard as it transitions from BNSF’s San Bernardino Sub to the Alameda Corridor, a 20-m... (more)

For a city with the reputation of being a flat slab of concrete, Los Angeles is surprisingly hilly and green to those who are unfamiliar with it. Sure, the Los Angeles River, as seen here, is a c... (more)

Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is seen at Los Angeles Union Station four minutes after it arrived on Track 13 … and twenty minutes before it was due to arrive at 8:00 am! ... (more)

The trainset from this morning’s Southwest Chief has deadheaded to Amtrak’s Redondo Junction facility for servicing. AMTK P42DC 161, recently repainted into the carrier’s original pa... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 765 (San Diego to Goleta), with CDTX SC-44 "Charger" 2110 pushing the six-car train, is about to make the left turn at Mission Tower and head into stub-en... (more)

The early-morning sun has just gotten high enough to bath Amtrak's incoming Southwest Chief in a golden light as it arrives at its final destination â Los Angeles. Leading the train this ... (more)

Amtrak train 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, pulls into its second stop of 35 it will make in its 2,438-mile trek across much of America, originating in Emeryville CA and ending in Chic... (more)

Just south of Union Station is Amtrak’s 16th Street Engine Facility, where the carrier’s locomotives and cars get serviced and receive light repairs. We see Amtrak Non-Powered Control Unit (N... (more)

CSX Transportation 8467 may have "SD40-2" marked on the cab, but it was not built as such. This engine emerged from EMD's factory in McCook, Illinois, in February 1969 as an SD40, built... (more)

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania owns the last extant EMD E7, in the form of Pennsylvania Railroad E7A 5901. This engine, built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in September 1945, was... (more)

Having spent the holidays in New York with the grandkids, we missed all the precipitation that occurred in southern California (darn it … us natives love when it rains here!). But on our first ... (more)