BNSF Railway train Q-NYCLAC6-16L holds Track 2 while it awaits an open track at Hobart Yard, just south of downtown Los Angeles – its eastbound counterpart (the Q-LACNYC) was due to depart Hobar... (more)

Ten-year-old Southern Pacific 7201 lays over at the railroad's Dolores Yard. Built by EMD in February 1978, this GP40X originally featured "elephant ears" over its flared radiators in o... (more)

The American Freedom train arrived in southern California on December 22, 1975, and the train was on display at the Los Angeles County Fair Grounds from the 23rd until the 30th. In the midst of A... (more)

Union Pacific train LOA32 (the "Marlboro") heads east down Santa Ana Street in Anaheim, approaching the Anaheim Boulevard intersection. This was the location, on the right, of the South... (more)

Two-month-old Union Pacific ES44AC 2520 was spotted on the Dolores Industrial Lead after arriving at the railroad’s Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF) in Long Beach. After dropping o... (more)

Cooling their heels (or should it be "wheels"?) after the morning commuter rush are a pair of Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority's "Sounder" trains. The trainset o... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division constructed only three GP40P-2 locomotives, all for the Southern Pacific (SP 3197-3199) for use on their commuter trains on the San Francisco Peninsula. Two... (more)

GP40-2 with Flared Radiators!

Now that the power that brought Union Pacific local LOA32 to Santa Ana has cut off and run around the 9-car train, the more interesting locomotive ... (more)

Santa Fe 3751 departs Los Angeles Union Station for the second Saturday in a row. This train is headed to San Bernardino for that city's "Railroad Days" celebration. Behind the Baldwin 4... (more)

North County Transit District (operator of the Coaster commuter trains) F59PHI 3001 sits in San Diego on a warm evening. Coaster owned two of these F59PHIs, built in September 2001. (San Diego, ... (more)

The speed limit on Anaheim’s Santa Ana Street is 25 miles-per-hour, but the speed limit on Union Pacific’s Santa Ana Industrial Lead, laid in the middle of the street, is considerably slower â... (more)

Nothing says "The '70s" like Alco C415s on the Southern Pacific, and Ford Pintos! Spending the night at Anaheim Junction on a clear April 1973 evening is SP 2404, one of ten center-cab ... (more)

An Amtrak "San Diegan" 778 makes a stop in Fullerton, California, in the early 1970s. In the early days of Amtrak, this train was powered by Santa Fe F-units until Amtrak could take del... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division constructed only three GP40P-2 locomotives, all for the Southern Pacific (SP 3197-3199) for use on their commuter trains on the San Francisco Peninsula. Two... (more)

Union Pacific train PYULB1 01 passes under the Los Angeles Metro "Blue Line" light rail line as it nears its destination – Union Pacific's Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF)... (more)