Receiving some basic servicing at Union Pacific’s East Yard is U30C 2914. Built by General Electric in April 1972, this engine would soldier on in the UP’s diesel fleet until June 1984, just ove... (more)

A Santa Fe freight heads west through Fullerton behind a quartet of EMD GPs: GP30 – GP35 – GP30 – GP35. All four are still in the original blue and yellow paint scheme, although they all carry d... (more)

San Diego does not see many sleepers in revenue service, but Superliner Sleeping Car 32017 was in town in May 1988 for the San Diego Railfair, most likely to entice some San Diegans to head north ... (more)

A Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority L Line train departs the downtown Azusa station as it makes it way to East Los Angeles. This train, led by MTA 722; is comprised of AnsaldoBreda P2550... (more)

Much of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority’s L Line (formerly the Gold Line) was built on the old Santa Fe Railway’s Second District mainline. A pair of AnsaldoBreda P2550 light rail ... (more)

Fresh from the Siemens AG factory in Florin, a part of Sacramento, California, are the first two SC-44 "Chargers" for San Diego County's Coaster commuter trains. The engines were picked up at the... (more)

Rolling through San Bernardino is BNSF Railway train Z-WSPLAC9-24A, a Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train ticking off the final 65 miles of its trip from Willow Springs IL to Los Angeles. The WSPLA... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western caboose 01416 was built by the railroad’s Burnham Shops (in Denver, the downtown of which is visible to the caboose’s right) in August 1941. Originally, these cars wor... (more)

Beautifully restored to its "as delivered" appearance is Santa Fe Railway FP45 108. When the BNSF Railway retired their small fleet of FP45s, which they inherited when the Santa Fe and ... (more)

Heading through CP Maple is Union Pacific train LOA32, which originated in Anaheim and is now heading to Santa Ana to deliver two tank cars to Behr Paint. UP GP60 1064 (ex-UP 1909, originally Sou... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific iron ore train heads east under Interstate 15 and past the vineyards of Ontario in the late 70s. SP SD39 5316 is teamed with a pair of SP U33Cs to pull this 60 (or s... (more)

North(bound) meets South(bound) at Irvine as Metrolink train 811 (Riverside to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo, with F125 922 shoving) departs the station while a one-hour late Amtrak Pacific Surfl... (more)

Departing the station in Pomona CA is Amtrak’s train 36, the Ogden UT-bound Desert Wind. On this day, a pair of F40PHs, 214 and 249, are in charge of this nine-car train. There is a lot o... (more)

The Budd Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, constructed 398 RDC (an acronym for Rail Diesel Car), between 1949 and 1962. RDCs (also called Buddliners) are self-propelled diesel multiple unit ... (more)

Union Pacific GP30s 842, 851 and 837 leave East Yard and head south on the railroad's San Pedro Subdivision. As they do, they cross the Santa Fe's Third District at Hobart Tower on July 27, 1975.... (more)