This trackage, threading between a stand of palm trees and a row of eucalyptus, is Union Pacific's San Pedro Subdivision. It was, before the UP acquired the Southern Pacific, the UP's mainline to ... (more)

A Virginia Railway Express commuter train, pulled by MP36PH-3C V67, threads its way through the maze of double-slip switches in Washington Union Station as it brings another trainload of passenger... (more)

It's a busy, and rainy, morning in Fullerton as Metrolink train 707, a 91/Perris Valley Line train (Los Angeles to Perris-South), with F125 915 shoving, loads passengers on Track 3. On Track 2 is... (more)

Founded in August 2005, the railroad commenced its first operations on January 1, 2006, when P&L Transportation, formerly Four Rivers Transportation, the parent company of both the Evansville West... (more)

Amtrak train 5, the tri-weekly westbound San Francisco Zephyr, crosses the snow-covered Sierra Nevada Mountains as it heads west from Chicago to Oakland … but, oddly, not to its namesake ... (more)

BNSF Railway's California Division Christmas Train operated a pair of 50-mile round-trips on the railway's Cajon Sub from San Bernardino, California, to the Summit of Cajon Pass. The second trip ... (more)

Having conquered Cajon Pass, the Pacific Railroad Society's 75th Anniversary special (symboled UP AMT966-02) heads across the Mojave Desert on its way from Los Angeles to Bakersfield. This is UP'... (more)

As the set sets, Metrolink Inland Empire-Orange Line train 860 departs the station in Orange as it heads from Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo to downtown San Bernardino. (The train usually originates... (more)

Heading west toward Los Angeles' Hobart Yard is a 9-car local, with a pair of GP35s for power – ATSF 3345 and 3373. (Fullerton, California – March 2, 1975)

Just shy of five years after being pulled from San Bernardino's Viaduct Park, with her restoration nearly complete, Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 stretches her "legs" with some short runs on the C... (more)

Rolling toward Los Angeles is a Union Pacific double-stack train being pulled by UP Dash 8-40C 9129, teamed with a pair of SD60s and two more Dash 9-40Cs. (Ontario, California – March 1988)

CSX Transportation Dash 8-40C 7492, seen here at Union Pacific’s Dolores Industrial Lead, was built by General Electric in March 1989 as Conrail 6037. When Conrail was broken up between CSX and... (more)

Speeding weary commuters home to Long Beach, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Agency P2000 Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) 244, built in 1996-1999 by Siemens Mobility, will shortly make a stop at the Wil... (more)

Awaiting its next call to duty at Union Pacific Railroad’s Dolores Yard is Kansas City Southern Railway ES44AC 4767. After 2½ years of service, this locomotive (built in November 2011) still l... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Dash 9-44CW 4906, operating with FURX SD40-2 7287 (ex-BNSF 7287, originally BN 7287) and BNSF GP38-2 2277 (ex-BN 2277, née-SLSF 422), approaches Cajon Pass' T... (more)