Watching from above at the Chamberlain Lake Rest Area as Westbound BNSF C44-9W no 4668 rolls through Tunnel No. 9 with its grain train strung along Chamberlain Lake.

The sunset falls over the southbound Gaudalupe Local as it races along the Santa Barbara Subdivision through Ventura Ca. enroute to Gemco Yard in Los Angeles.

California has been inundated with rain from with Atmospheric Rivers coming across the Pacific Ocean this Winter. A large storm cell dumps rain on Ventura and along the Coastal Mountains as the ea... (more)

Todays Amtrak no. 14, the northbound Coast Starlight is running on a limited weekly schedule once again. Three units with No.127 leading, roll the Starlight along the Gaviota Coastline north of S... (more)

Passing by Faria County Park, Union Pacific no. 6322 leads a Herzog ballast train southbound along the Santa Barbara Subdivision to Los Angeles and then on to Utah.

Union Pacific no. 5294 and SD60 no. 2210 lead a rail train to Oxnard. They will run the engines around to the northbound end and couple up the Hezog Rail Unloading Machine to the south end. Lots o... (more)

Rounding through the Horseshoe Curve at Glenshire, a Union Pacific unit train heads down the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains to Reno.

Rolling through the S Curve at Glenshire, Union Pacific No.7388 with an Intermodal Container Train, hugs the Truckee River as it approaches the town of Truckee,

Amtrak No. 11, the southbound Coast starlight on time and just before sunset, passes Summer Beach.

A Union Pacific Sales And Marketing Special crosses the Gaviota Trestle heading for a overnight stop in San Luis Obispo. The next day it goes north to San Jose and Oakland. Then up the Martinez su... (more)

Gleaming in the setting sun Amtrak No. 11, the Southbound Coast Starlight, rolls along a very dry Central Coast of California.

Northbound Amtrak 118 pulls the Coast Starlight with a Iowa Pacific dome car on the end across the Gaviota trestle on a winters day.