Just minutes out of LAUPT, an eastbound Amtrak Surfliner has just passed some stored BNSF Dash 8's as it approaches Commerce.

With only a few miles to go before reaching the ultimate destination at LATC, UP 4167 brings the Brooklyn trailers through West Glendale, passing a trademark SP palm tree near Grandview Ave.

Lugging a train of potash empties for Trona, UP 7769 begins the downhill run to Palmdale, having just crested the top of Soledad Canyon at Vincent Hill less than a mile behind.

A pair UP ES44's are spliced by an SD9043MAC as they lead a northbound empty potash train up the former SP Saugus Line, caught blasting out of Tunnel 19 in Soledad Canyon.

An empty UP potash train heading for Mojave and, ultimately, Trona rounds the curve at the bottom end of Ravenna siding in Soledad Canyon.

Power to the house! An 11-engine consist of six-axle road power is hostled over to the BNSF's Commerce locomotive shops near Los Angeles.

With the stark Providence Mountains in the distance, a westbound doublestack eases downgrade toward Kelso on Cima Hill on a cool spring afternoon in the desert.

On a brisk morning in the Mojave Desert, an eastbound intermodal train tops the grade at Cima Hill. Smooth sailing for this crew all the way to Las Vegas now.

The Brookville Locomotive BL20GX demonstrator unit is hostled at BNSF's Commerce Diesel facility on an overcast afternoon in the Los Angeles basin.

Always a welcome sight on the mainline, a Goatboat Dash 9 leads an intermodal westbound through Commerce and ultimately the Los Angeles Harbor.

A colorful set of 4-axle power is parked on a repair-in-place track at BNSF's Commerce Diesel on an overcast afternoon in the Los Angeles basin.

A clean GEVO from BNSF's original order leads a string of piggybacks westbound through Commerce with the final destination just a couple of miles ahead at BNSF's Hobart terminal near Los Angeles.

With a late start out of Los Angeles, northbound Union Pacific train ZLCSE is working through Ravenna in Soledad Canyon on the former SP Saugus Line.

Near Vincent Hill, a southbound weekend Metrolink heads through Soledad Canyon on the former SP Saugus Line with a new MPI diesel providing today's power.

Empty coal train CTRSV-06 pulls through a little stretch of undulating territory as it approaches Saltdale on former SP Jawbone Branch.