SBRHS' grandly restored Santa Fe 4-8-4 #3751 passes Terminal Tower on its way into display at LAUS.

One of the uglier AC4400CWs leased for commuter services by Metrolink awaits its trip up the Valley Sub to Lancaster at Los Angeles Union Station.

Metrolink's first Tier IV diesel, F125 #905 is the lead unit on a display train being set up for an event the following day at Los Angeles Union Station.

The New Face of Metrolink

If you cross your eyes and let them go out of focus, it kind of, sort of, looks like an F-unit. Maybe. OK, not really. But, still, it is an F-unit. T... (more)

Two Locomotives, Ninety-Years Difference in Technology

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 passes the (now closed) Terminal Tower at the north end of Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal on July 17... (more)

How to Make it Even Uglier

Adding a BNSF freight engine to most Metrolink trains certainly conflicts with the carrier's streamlined equipment. BNSF AC4400CW 5627 is even less attrac... (more)

Ready to Meet the Public

Metrolink's first (and, so far, only) F125 will be on display at Los Angeles Union Station on Monday, July 18, 2016. The engine arrived a day early to get s... (more)

In May, 1971, Union Pacific is using its new U50C’s in high-speed service out of East Los Angeles, where the 5003 is being serviced at the open-air engine facility. UP gambled big on the 5,000-h... (more)

The city of Los Angeles provides a nice backdrop for Amtrak maintenance...

End of the Month ... And End of the Line

On the inaugural run of Southern Pacific train 99, the steam powered Coast Daylight, on March 21, 1937, the fireman was M. J. Crow... (more)

After making it's way to Los Angeles on the run through 698 train from Tulsa prototype and I believe only SD40-2 painted in the experimental "Tiger Stripe" scheme waits at Santa Fe's Hob... (more)

A Forty-Two-Year-Old Mystery Solved!

Ever since stumbling upon a pair of New York Metropolitan Transit Authority R-32 subway cars in Santa Fe's Redondo Junction engine and passenger ... (more)

The Crystal Springs & Cahuenga Valley Railway was, I believe, a fictional railroad made up by the Travel Town folk in Los Angeles. Back in the 1990s and early 2000s they ran a caboose train on the... (more)

Union Pacific El Segundo switcher with three genset locomotives in Los Angeles, CA.

One of Kaiser Steel's Eagle Mountain RR U30C's showed up at SP's Taylor Yard engine facility for some wheel work.