Climbing off the floor of the San Fernando Valley, UP 4486 leads the LOF67-12 through Tunnel 28 and into the first of many grades on its trip from Gemco (Van Nuys) to Guadalupe.

Banking towards the western portal of Tunnel 27, UP 6522 leads a detouring West Colton to Klamath Falls train off the floor of the San Fernando Valley and into Santa Susana Pass as it heads for th... (more)

With the dynamic duo of Amtrak California Dash-8's hitching a ride home to Oakland, Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight leans into the curve as it approaches the eastern portal of Tunnel 27 on its... (more)

One Last Time. On the day it was scheduled to return north to Oakland, CDTX 2052 finds itself once again serving on a Pacific Surfliner with three additional Amtrak California cars as it d... (more)

UP 2760 leads a 17-car long business train into the San Fernando Valley as the morning mist begins to lift through the rocks of Santa Susana Pass.

Coast Bound Varnish. Snaking its way into Tunnel 26, Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight bids the San Fernando Valley farewell as it works toward its next station stop of Simi Valley with ... (more)

SCAX 907, one of the only F125's cleared to be operating on the mainline, makes the first daylight appearance for its unit's class on the company's Ventura County Line (Ventura Subdivision) as it ... (more)

For the second time in three days, UP 2760 leads a 17-car sales and marketing special over the ex-Southern Pacific coast line...this time traveling back south. After traveling north from Gemco to ... (more)

Not nearly as glamours as a Southern Pacific GS-4 barking upgrade out of the San Fernando Valley heading for the famed coast line...SCAX 880 on the point of Metrolink 119 carries on the heritage o... (more)

AMTK 6900 pops out of Tunnel 28 and into the morning light as it descends Santa Susana Pass into Chatsworth for its next scheduled stop.

Escaping the darkness of Tunnel 28, UP 1411 and an HLCX lease unit run light back to Gemco following their trip to Simi Valley.

Forget Cleveland…Chatsworth Rocks!

”Chatsworth Rocks” was the location of many publicity photos of Southern Pacific’s Coast Daylight back in the steam days, so it was, natural... (more)

UP 4611 lugs the LOF67-17 off the San Fernando Valley floor and into Santa Susana Pass as it exits Tunnel 28 and curves out of Chatsworth. Today's train includes a flatcar loaded with a pair of Jo... (more)

Leaning into the curve on the site of the 2008, head-on collision between Metrolink 111 and Union Pacific's southbound LOF65, UP 4685 leads this afternoon's edition of the northbound LOF65 upgrade... (more)

The roar of three Electro Motive diesels can be heard echoing against the rock face of Tunnel 27's west portal as the LOF67, Union Pacific's local running from Gemco (Van Nuys) to Guadalupe, works... (more)