Norfolk Southern 9500 leads a color lashup, with a former Santa Fe, BNSF, and former Conrail unit leading a doublestack towards Los Angeles.

SP 4110 is street running with a twelve car Tehachapi, Southern Pacific train 56, in tow at 15 MPH, in 1937. Otto C. Perry photo, from my collection.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Blue Line is a 22-mile (35.4 km) light rail line running north–south between Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, passing throug... (more)

ATSF EMC 1 is in charge of the Super Chief at Los Angeles California in 1936. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

Rolling into Pacific Harbor Lines' Pier A Yard in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington are a pair of EMD 6-axle diesels: Locomotive Leasing Partners SD38-2 2808 (the former Reserve Mining 1... (more)

Santa Fe #664 is the class locomotive for the Santa Fe's 664 class 2-8-0. She is preserved and displayed at Travel Town in Los Angeles.

Crystal Springs & Cahuenga Valley Railroad's Model 40 has been freshly repainted in a neat scheme, and renumbered 52 in honor of Travel Town's opening in 1952. The locomotive is operable and is na... (more)

UP 0-6-0 and Sharp & Fellows 2-6-2 poke their smoke boxes out from under the pavilion at Travel Town.

Santa Fe doodle-bug M177 gets a rare appearance out in the sun as she has been staged in front of the pavilion area for the annual Depot Days at Travel Town. Western Pacific Consolidation 26 is pa... (more)

Amtrak train 3, the Southwest Chief, sits in Los Angeles Union Station after arriving from Chicago. Amtrak P42DC 123 is the lead locomotive, teamed with P42DC 66 – fitting, since this tr... (more)

Four SDP40Fs are on the headend of train 3, the westbound Southwest Limited, because this train is delivering new locomotive 587, built in May 1974, which will be assigned to Amtrak trains ... (more)

While checking out the location of the Pacific Harbor Line's former enginehouse at their now-gone Pier A Yard, a pair of NRE 3GS21B locomotives, PHL 30 and 31, were found crossing Alameda Street w... (more)

Midday gathering of Southern California Regional Rail Authority trainsets before the rush.

Still sitting on one of Taylor Yard’s turntable whisker tracks some two years after being retried following a wreck in Willowbrook (Compton CA) in mid-1983, Southern Pacific GP9E 3346 (ex-SP GP9... (more)

Los Angeles' iconic city hall provides the backdrop as Amtrak train 3, The Super Chief, has arrived on Los Angeles Union Station's Track 12 with a trio of new SDP40F diesels for power: AMT... (more)