Plying the same right-of-way once graced by the Southern Pacific's famous Daylight passenger trains, today's Coast Starlight begins to bite into the grade of Santa Susana Pass as it ... (more)

The Day 2926 Escaped The Gate. May 6, 2023, will go down in history as the day that Santa Fe 2926 officially "escaped the gate," a phrase coined by the New Mexico Steam Locomotive... (more)

The headlight of Santa Fe 2926 rests at dim as the locomotive sits on display at the 4th Street grade crossing, located on Rio Metro Regional Transit District's "Sawmill Spur." In a few ... (more)

Santa Fe 2926 poses atop the 4th Street grade crossing while on hot display during a fundraising event. The move of the locomotive on this day marked the first time 2926 moved out of its restorati... (more)

If You Restore It...They Will Come. A swarm of onlookers fill the roadway at the 4th Street grade crossing as Santa Fe 2926 simmers on hot display after making the great escape from the New... (more)

To The Rescue. UP 6699, a General Electric AC44CW built in August of 1997, leads the WSBHDS-12 north as it rolls through the Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve under threatening skies. This... (more)

BNSF 3760 leads a southbound (railroad eastbound) manifest through Illmon as it begins its assult on Tehachapi.

CDTX 2109, an SC-44 "Charger" built by Siemens in 2018, gets a wash by a member of Amtrak's mechanical shop force at Redondo Junction on a cool, fall morning. Note how brown the screens ... (more)

AMTK 184 is seen at Amtrak's Redondo Junction Locomotive Maintenance Facility during its "PM" (preventive maintenance) inspection visit. In the background, the an original ATSF canteliv... (more)

Two former Go Transit F59PH's are seen very out of place as they handle some serious tonnage on their drawbars while traveling on the head-end of a BNSF Los Angeles - Chicago intermodal train as i... (more)

A southbound Union Pacific manifest has just gotten underway again after meeting a northbound BNSF Z train and it utilizing all the power its two DPU's can offer, including the CN 5745. It was alm... (more)

CN 5745 shoves hard on the rear of a southbound Union Pacific manifest as it negotiates the curves at Allard approaching the horseshoe curve here as the head-end of the train approaches the north ... (more)

BNSF 6682 snakes out of Valentine and through the many rock formations at this end of Crozier Canyon with more than a miles of stacks destined for the Port of Long Beach, Calif.

It's golden hour at Redondo Junction as AMTK 509 basks in the light adjacent to the ex-Santa Fe Railway turntable here at Amtrak's Redondo Junction locomotive servicing facility. Those with ken ey... (more)

Following days of prep at Amtrak's Redondo Junction locomotive servicing facility, AMTK 203, wearing a commemorative paint scheme celebrating Operation Life Saver's 50th Anniversary, eases off th... (more)