SCAX 910, a new EMD F125, leads a test train consisting of 12 cars and another F125 on the rear (SCAX 911) east past CP White as it prepares to stop and wait for a westbound Metrolink before rever... (more)

Old and New. SCAX 883, an F59PHI built by EMD in 1995 meets its new counterpart and ultimately replacement, SCAX 910, an EMD F125 testing on the San Bernardino Line. Once the tier 4-complia... (more)

SCAX 910, a new EMD F125 unit, leads a 12 car test train with #905 on the rear on a Sunday afternoon through Claremont. Once testing on these locomotives is completed within the next 1-2 months th... (more)

BNSF 5183 leads a stack train through Fullerton towards Los Angeles.

A small group of passengers gathers on the platform in Fullerton as Pacific Surfliner train 583 arrives with the Veteran's "cabbage" leading.

BNSF 8026 leads an intermodal train past CP Woodford as it snakes through the Tehachapi mountains.

The stage is set. A slightly battered P42 sits quietly on track 13 at Los Angeles Union Station. In just a few hours, it will depart for New Orleans on the Sunset Limited.

Amtrak's Veteran's "cabbage" leads the way out of Fullerton with a Los Angeles-bound Pacific Surfliner train in tow.

A westbound BNSF stack train passes through Fullerton on a warm but breezy afternoon.

With the remnants of a derailed tank car in the foreground, UP 5372 leads its train around one of the many curves in and around Tehachapi Pass.

The new leader of the pack. One of Metrolink's new F125 "Spirit" Tier 4 locomotives, the third built, though the first to be delivered, sits on display at Los Angeles Union Statio... (more)

A new tier 4 unit leads a BNSF coil train through Tehachapi.

A BNSF stack train races through Sandcut.

BNSF's "Earthworm" grain train passes the depot in downtown Tehachapi.

The new normal. Forty leased BNSF AC4400CWs are in the process of being placed in the cab car position of all Metrolink trains pending an investigation into whether the plows on Metrolink's... (more)