A northbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner pulls into the Van Nuys station while a post Christmas crowd waits to go home and the wonderful Amtrak agent waits to both load and unload checked bags.

The Norfolk Southern Illinois Terminal heritage SD70ACe made a visit to Southern California this past week. Here it passes under the venerable and iconic SP cantilever signal.

Norfolk Southern's Illinois Terminal heritage unit leads a K train west into the setting sun in California.

Norfolk Southern's Illinois Terminal heritage unit leads a K train around the big curve that follows Bombay Beach along the Salton Sea (on the old SP Sunset Route east of Indio).

Norfolk Southern's Illinois Terminal heritage unit leads a K train around the big curve that follows Bombay Beach along the Salton Sea (on the old SP Sunset Route east of Indio).

A super hot Z train that has been racing along the Salton Sea begins to brake and slow here as it sees the approach signal ahead. Z train or not, it would get stabbed by a rail inspector's hi-rail... (more)

A rattty UP SD70M leads six visiting Norfolk Southern units east through Colton Yard on their way to Global 4. This train would normally have had all the So Cal railfans chasing, but this was the ... (more)

The 741 Relief Job, filling in for the First Watson, has three Santa Fe engines on this day as it works hard climbing the grade with about 25 loaded propane cars from Chevron.

A Goleta bound Pacific Surfliner races northwest through the northern edge of Glendale.

A Bob Hope Airport Shuttle is at full track speed of 69MPH as it rushes through the northern end of LA suburb Glendale, CA.

So I was probably the last railfan in America to have never shot a Norfolk Southern heritage unit (saw a couple far off, deep in yards, but never shot a photo of one) that is until word came that ... (more)

Hotshot Z train to Atlanta races down the hill in Cabazon on its way east on a beautiful late fall day.

For a couple months in 1977, just before the end of all MP54s on Conrail's commuter lines, a pair of the old cars replaced the normal Jersey Arrow on the Princeton Dinky (aka PJ & B - Princeton Ju... (more)

April 6, 1977, a Conrail Morristown Line local passenger train pulls into Millburn, NJ on its way to Hoboken.

Looking exactly the same as it did in its Erie Lackwanna days, a set of Pullman Standard Dieseliner Push Pulls cars and a GE U34CH head north on a cloudy day in Ridgewood. As most know, these cars... (more)