Amtrak Santa Barbara to San Diego train #774 descending Santa Susanna pass passing the "Chatsworth Rocks" in Chatsworth, CA

Amtraks westbound Coast Starlight train #11 passes through the "Chatsworth Rocks" in Chatsworth, CA

Amtrak's train #14, the northbound "Coast Starlight," winds through the Chatsworth Rocks on Santa Susana Pass as it departs the Los Angeles area on June 19, 1984. The power for today's train is a... (more)

A northbound Pacific Surfliner climbs through the rocks and parkland of the Santa Susana Pass.

One Amtrak Pacific Surfliner trainset per day runs from Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo, avoiding the more common segment from San Diego to L.A. This is also the only trainset not made up o... (more)

The northbound Surfliner to San Luis Obispo makes it way around a curve as it heads up Santa Susana Pass.

The northbound Coast Starlight works upgrade through the Chatsworth Rocks.

Classic Southern Pacific! SP F7A 6325 and F7B 8219 (both November 1950 graduates of the EMD La Grange, IL, factory) sit with a caboose at the station in Chatsworth, California, on the SP's Coast ... (more)

Southern Pacific's famed "Coast Daylight" (known as the "most beautiful train in the world"), train 99, ascends the grade at Chatsworth as it heads from the San Fernando Valley northward (railroad... (more)

A northbound Metrolink commuter train heads through Santa Susana Pass on its way towards Simi Valley.

A northbound Metrolink train emerges from the north portal of Tunnel 27 in Santa Susana Pass between Chatsworth and Simi Valley.

Former Southern Pacific steam locomotive GS 4 # 4449, built by the Lima Locomotive Works of Lima Ohio for the SP in 1941, is seen here on the point of the American Freedom Train at Chatsworth Cali... (more)

Amtrak's Central Coast Pacific Surfliner, the only train that runs the entire distance of San Diego to San Luis Obispo, is coming out of the Tunnel 28 as it enters the Santa Susana Pass. This tra... (more)

Moments after I took this shot, the Metrolink dispatcher called this train to ask if he had any problems between Moorpark and Topanga Canyon. The engineer responded that the engine was only giving... (more)

Empty autoracks from Mira Loma CA pass through the first of three tunnels (Tunnel 28) that make up the Santa Susana Pass. They are heading to Milpitas, near San Jose. The train's symbol stands f... (more)