After giving Amtrak the rollby, a pair of UP SD70ACe's and an ex-SP SD40M-2 power a westbound manifest out of the siding at Pomona on the Alhambra Sub.

A pair of new generation switching locomotives handle a cut of cars at the west end of the former SP yard at City of Industry.

A eastbound doublestack train is put into perspective as it races through Cadiz and across the vast Mojave Desert, with the famous Amboy crater in the distance.

A UP freight sits in the storage track affectionately known as "The Slide" north of the Glendale depot as a southbound Surfliner passes the signals at CP Currier on Metrolink's Valley Ventura Sub.... (more)

Heading into a desert sunrise, an eastbound UP mixed freight passes under the BNSF signals at West Daggett, and will soon be on home rails just a couple of miles ahead.

Eastbound tonnage races past some snap track and wheel sets at Danby on BNSF's Needles Sub.

A pair of Metrolink commuter trains are on weekend layover adjacent the former Santa Fe A yard in San Bernardino.

Under a desert sky, UP 4200 has a heavy westbound stacker in good order as it makes the slow and steady descent on Cima Hill.

The going away view to accompany the previous photo of BNSF 7777.

A UP switch job rests between assignments on a cold winter night at the former SP J-Yard several miles south of downtown Los Angeles.

A gem of the Mojave desert, the old Union Pacific depot in Kelso looks beautiful after a long and well deserved restoration project. Hopefully there is success in reopening the lunch counter for b... (more)

This BNSF unit brings the photographer a little luck with the sucker holes out along the Needles Sub near Siberia on a late winter afternoon.

Amtrak #185, looking a little naked without its nose logo, is on the point of tonight's eastbound Southwest Chief train #4 at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal.

A westbound auto train races across the desert floor between Kelso and Afton Canyon on UP's Cima Sub.

Lease power from GCFX and a CN cowl unit provide some welcome color to the desert as they bring an auto train into California at Park Moabi, just west of the Colorado River crossing at Topock.