BNSF 4856 leads the Coast Starlight South, towards Los Angeles.

BNSF 7916 heads for Tehachapi Pass as the sun sets over Bakersfield.

Union Pacific 3872 heads away from the late afternoon sun.

FWRY 3501 leads the Pacific Railroad Society's “Ride the Movie Trains” excursion eastbound towards Piru near the last Rte 126 crossing.

UP 6831 glides downgrade near Martinez.

A westbound Santa Fe pig train passes the old yard. In the distance, the old shops appear to be still active judging from the diesel exhaust rising from that location.

Arizona and California westbound train 708 was a few miles east of it's connection with Santa Fe's Cadiz turn near Cadiz

Two new locomotives, one a Dash 9 and the other a Dash 8, pull a westbound Santa Fe pig train across the Alhambra Valley near sunset on the Muir Trestle.

Fillmore & Western 3501 leads the Pacific Railway Society excursion Eastbound outside Fillmore, heading for Piru, where the train will reverse.

Fillmore & Western 3502 leads the Pacific Railway Society excursion Westbound out of Piru, en route to Montalvo.

Heading southbound on competitor rails, BNSF 4417 glides past Summerland with baretables in tow.

As the morning sun reunites itself with Tehachapi's golden hills the sound of dynamic brakes pierce the cool morning air in the Caliente Valley. BNSF 5309 has just finished the most daunting porti... (more)

AT&SF 3751 & CB&Q Silver Solarium at National Train Day 2013. - AT&SF 3751 and CB&Q observation car Silver Solarium sit at LAUPT for National Train Day 2013.

At dusk, the observation on the end of the Worlds Fair Daylight flashes past the many photographers gathered to shoot the train with Mt. Shasta as a backdrop.