BNSF and NS team up in the snow to bring a Q train towards Cajon Summit.

A Long Beach to Logistics Park train crests Cajon Summit in a rare "two-day" snow. (While it snows in Cajon Pass, the snow usually only lasts a couple hours once the sun comes out - it was quite r... (more)

Saw a headlight backing away from Van Nuys around Noon. Assumed it was the Day Bud going to the wax place. Set up at Coldwater Canyon to shoot it coming back but it never did. Must have been somet... (more)

Running nearly 3 hours late (due to a 17-hour late #11 and the need to cobble together another set of equipment from the yard), Amtrak's Coast Starlight nears the former CP Lockheed with the Burba... (more)

Running nearly 17 hours late, and with a heritage P42 leading one of the remaining P40s, Amtrak's #11 of the 20th is about to slam past the downtown Burbank platforms and then pass #14 as it final... (more)

A Western Pacific Consolidation type locomotive sits at the vanguard of the Travel Town Pavilion in Griffith Park.

Built by Norris-Lancaster in 1864, Stockton Terminal & Eastern #1 is the oldest piece in the Travel Town collection and is presently nearing the end of cosmetic restoration.

A Union Pacific 0-6-0 Baldwin S5 is lit up by the dropping sun as a professional photographer gets ready to set up for some family photos with the engine as background.

A rare center cab EMC Model 40 is the main power at Travel Town (not that anything is usually moving there, but this locomotive is their tow truck when they need to pull stuff). I have heard of pl... (more)

This Western Pacific Consolidation was donated to Travel Town back around the creation of the park in the 1950s.

California Western #56 is a rare Baldwin RS12. Last I knew, this unit was serviceable and even gets used on occasion when they need to move something large around the museum yard. That being said,... (more)

Some twenty years ago we had friends who lived a house away from the abandoned railroad cut through Cheviot Hills and Rancho Park in West LA. Our kids were the same age and we visited them often. ... (more)

The Formosa Cafe in West Hollywood reopened recently and as part of the restoration they did a beautiful resetoration on the PE 800 car that is their bar. My first encounter with PE 913 was a sume... (more)

The Formosa Cafe in West Hollywood reopened recently and as part of the restoration they did a beautiful resetoration on the PE 800 car that is their bar. My first encounter with PE 913 was a sume... (more)

The "low-level set" on the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner route pulls out of Los Angeles as train 1572 with NPCU 90278 (former F40PH 278) taking up the markers. Terminal Tower is on the right.