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)

BNSF 987 leads a Chicago, IL to Stockton, CA intermodal train as it slowly grinds up the 1.4% grade out of Needles on Goffs Hill. These "H1" painted Dash-9s have started to make a comeba... (more)

I miss that tunnel. There must be a corollary to the theory of entropy which states that all the neat stuff goes away to be replaced by the mundane, ordinary and bland. The Seaboard Air Line app... (more)

I'm back for a visit and I get to see these things called double stacks. Boggles my mind that they've been around that long. Back in the two track days. I haven't gotten to railman in the three... (more)

A westbound freight is shaking the ground as it roars eastbound. Looks that that second unit was in the wrong place and the wrong time some time ago. It's April and the chill precludes Blue Cut'... (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)

A north bound BNSF intermodal drops down grade between Allard and Caliente and through tunnels 1 and 2 as the head end pops out of tunnel 1 on a warm summer morning.

After my arrival I was thrilled to be living near famous Cajon Pass. This WB mixed freight is one of the first of many pictures or fine railfanning day, even with a ubiquitous -2.

Back when there seemed to be nothing but SD40-2s this consist is a little different but the real story is the first cut of cars. Livestock on the hoof. Probably one of the last such movements. ... (more)

The BNSF YWAT2041 is seen from the Redondo Beach Metro station. The insane amount of wires are contributions of both Metro catenary and a number of high-tension power lines.

Northbound Amtrak No. 14, the Coast Starlight with Siemans ALC-42 No. 314 leading, crosses Padre Juan Canyon Road as it rolls through Faria Beach Coloney on the Santa Barbara Sub.

When the British Petroleum (BP Products North America) refinery in Carson was sold to Tesoro Petroleum, their SW1200 switcher, BPOX 458, became Tesoro 001. Built by EMD in February 1959 as Colora... (more)

Double-headed F59PHIs lead Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 564 as it heads to San Diego from Los Angeles. Most likely, one of these two (AMTK 464 or AMTK 462) will be left in San Diego as a "... (more)

Heading east as it crests southern California’s Cajon Pass is BNSF train Z-LACWSP4-15U. BNSF ES44C4s 6613 and 8130, SD70ACEs 8992 and 8420, and Dash 9-44CW 5225 will take this UPS Expedited Int... (more)