The El Segundo Local passes under the 405 Freeway in the Del Aire neighborhood of Hawthorne as it nears its final destination at Wise Transfer.

The El Segundo Local has an unusually long train this day as it pulls near Cypave and readies to switch Interplastics.

The El Segundo Local rockets past a LA Metro Rail station with LA City Hall in the background as it gets ready to head out onto the branch.

On my way home from Cajon on December 28 I stopped at the LA River in downtown LA after seeing some action going on in 4th Street Yard. As it turned out the LOW20 El Segundo was building.

The West Colton to Ogden train heads into the cut just before Summit in Cajon Pass.

The daily "Winkle Bar" (so called as it is the closest sounding out one can make of its symbol, "WCLBAR") dashes through the snow in a full-tagged DC GEVO. O'er the hills it goes, chugging all the... (more)

Way out in the snow covering Cajon Pass a Union Pacific Ogden train makes its way towards Summit.

An Atlanta-bound Z train is pretty normal on Cajon Summit. Two Dash 9s in the lead is a bit less normal. Running on the second day of snow on the ground is pretty dang rare.

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

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.