The sound of dynamic braking fills the air as a westbound Southern Pacific lumber drag highballs Mott, California. After making a 180-degree turn just ahead at Sawmill Curve, the train will start ... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific train is holding the main at Mott, waiting for an eastbound train to climb out of the Sacramento River Canyon and clear on the siding in the foreground.

A new C44ACM rebuild leads westbound symbol IG4LB in the late afternoon near El Casco.

Heading through the unloader.

The morning mine train nears the USG plant in Plaster City as it brings the day's first load of crushed gypsum from the quarry. The open nose door on the MLW DL535E is common operating practice on... (more)

UP 3062 leads a westbound ISILB at El Casco.

A little over a month after it was delivered, Southern Pacific's first SD70M leads a westbound lumber drag on the Shasta Route.

More crushed gypsum heads to Plaster City (where it will be crushed even more). The mine railroad was originally conceived and built by a San Diego pharmacist, Samuel Dunnaway, who had relocated t... (more)

The morning loaded train begins its journey back to Plaster City with the hills above Fish Creek behind it.

Working in its fifth year since it was built by EMD, an SD70M leads a westbound manifest train on the Shasta Route.

Harbor Line. Sitting in Wilmington near San Pedro, California on the afternoon of March 30, 2012, Pacific Harbor Line/PHL 60 (MP20C-3PR, MPI/Progress Rail, 2007) awaits the next call to ser... (more)

A somewhat rare daylight move of a San Diego-bound freight, BNSF H-BARSDG1-25A, occurred when the train transitioned off Metrolink’s Olive Sub and onto Metrolink’s Orange Sub at 11:00 am, as A... (more)

Union Pacific Railway's shuttle that hauls rock from a quarry in Cabazon to a facility in Gardena (south of downtown Los Angeles), symboled R WCWCC 18 (because it technically originates and termin... (more)

Heading east as it passes under Beaumont Avenue is a Union Pacific local, with a single SD70ACe (UP 8867) and about a dozen cars, most of which are lumber cars for the various lumber yards in town... (more)

As the British Columbia display train nears its destination, Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, BC 4-6-4 2860 has not gotten onto Union Pacific's Los Angeles Sub, on which Southern Pacific has ... (more)