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.

BNSF's Pasadena Local passes a Metro Rail Gold Line train at the Irwindale station. This is almost the end of the line (despite the name, the BNSF train doesn't go all the way to Pasadena anymore,... (more)

BNSF's Pasadena Local has only one car to deliver today as it comes around the curve in La Verne.

A San Bernardino bound commuter train heads off the flyover at Bassett behind a venerable F59.

The San Gabriel Switcher's lead GP60 pulls forward in front of the Aurant Switcher's SD40-2 at Aurant Yard.

A rather short Los Angeles Hauler approaches Bassett out of the early morning sun with but wisps of the mountains in the background.

Calling railroad AAA - two DL C425s head out of Scranton light on their way to rescue the road train, which has stalled in Devil's Hole due to wheelslip. Here they are about to reach Mattes Street... (more)

Calling railroad AAA - two DL C425s head out of Scranton light on their way to rescue the road train, which has stalled in Devil's Hole due to wheelslip.