Metrolink 91 Line train 708 passes through Placentia, where a third track is being installed. A pair of F59PHIs (887 and 878) lead this train, with CTC-5 Cab Car 666 on the rear. Ooh! Spooky! Twel... (more)
3 units lead a late Westbound #3 at Verdemont.
Westbound symbol ZALTSBD passes the Cargill grain mill at Verdemont.
UP 3095 brings up the rear of an eastbound manifest at El Casco.
Heading to Los Angeles, Southern Pacific GS-4 4449 makes a service stop in Tehachapi after climbing out of the San Joaquin Valley. The low sun this morning creates a mood similar to a plein ai... (more)
BNSF Railway train S-ALTLBT1-18A, carrying containers from Alliance, Texas, to the Long Beach port's Pier T, sits at Basta, about a mile west of Fullerton's Amtrak/Metrolink station, awaiting a ne... (more)
Amtrak train 36, the eastbound Desert Wind (Los Angeles CA to Ogden UT) cuts through the haze as it passes the old Santa Fe station sign for Casa Blanca (White House), a neighborhood in Riv... (more)
Union Pacific Railway GP40P-2 1375 first showed up in Anaheim in November 2021 with no graffiti upon it. Roughly two-and-a-half years later, it looks like this. Built by EMD in November 1974 as ... (more)
Nearing the end of its journey from Pearland TX to Los Angeles CA is BNSF Railway train Q-PEALAC3-31A. BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5170, SD70ACe 9094 and ES44C4 8249 are passing through the Fullerton Trans... (more)
A typical under powered westbound MFWWC struggles near walking speed through Cabazon.
Brand new C44ACM #5951 leads westbound symbol IG2LC upgrade near Fingal on UP's Sunset Route.
KCS power leads a westbound San Antonio, TX to Long Beach, CA I train between Fingal and Cabazon in the late evening.
Pacific Surfliner hugs the beach just after sunset.
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train number 19, The Chief, is departing Barstow California with seven cars in 1933. Otto's speed estimate was 12 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
Western Pacific 4-8-2 171 is seen at Oroville California in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.