Within the darkened depths of the Caliente Canyon, on a cool fall afternoon, is a south bound BNSF manifest slowly battling its way up through the switch back curves and only minutes from the town... (more)

Technically there is probably one wheel of one car actually in Manhattan Beach, while the rest of the train is in Hawthorne, but Manhattan Beach is cooler. This is the weekend Relief Job that runs... (more)

A high green signal allows Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 583, with a mix of Amfleet and Horizon Fleet cars, to depart Fullerton as the sun sets in the west. This train, heading to Los Angeles f... (more)

Blink, blink, blink. A flashing rear end device on a south bound BNSF grain train blinks it’s way slowly up through the curves of Cable on a warm early summer night at around 1 am in the morning... (more)

The motion blur of a north bound BNSF manifest on a fall night.

Meandering one of many "S" curves of Donner Pass, former SP 119 now UP 6223 lead an eastbound autorack train up the West Slope.

Tucked into the small yard in Victorville is a local with BNSF ES44C4 8173 (and another GEVO) for power. (Victorville, California – February 15, 2024)

Climbing Cajon Pass at milepost 58 is Union Pacific train KLAG1, an intermodal train that may be operating for K-Line out of the port of Los Angeles. Union Pacific SD70M 4842, UP Dash 8-40C 9198,... (more)

Sitting in Victorville, opposite the Amtrak platforms, are a pair of BNSF Railway diesels – Dash 9-44CW 4096 and ES44C4 8203 – assigned to train R-CAL0041-14I, the Victorville Local. The cars... (more)

Amtrak's Desert Wind heads for Vegas as it rolls past Cajon.

Constructed on part of the old Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Redlands Loop, originally built on the late 1800s, is Metrolink's newest service: Arrow (named as an homage to the Inland Empire's... (more)

BNSF Railway train Z-SBDALT4-15 round the curve at Cajon Pass' Summit as it heads from nearby San Bernardino CA to Alliance TX. A quartet of BNSF locomotives - ES44C4s 7089, 6964 and 8327, plus D... (more)

Night operations on the Tehachapi Pass is a completely different world. Here a north bound manifest quickly drifts down the grade between tunnels 1 and 2 as the headlights light the right of way t... (more)

Clinging to the side of the hill, alongside Highway 58 in the upper Tehachapi mountains, a morning south bound Union Pacific intermodal battles up the steep grade and through tunnel 14 as the morn... (more)

A north bound BNSF intermodal is in the depths of a hot Tehachapi summer afternoon and the golden hillsides of the Allard horseshoe area as the trains exits the horseshoe curve and slowly works to... (more)