Nearing Los Angeles, northbound Pacific Surfliner train #1573 sails through Commerce on BNSF's San Bernardino Subdivision with an ex-F40 NPCU "cabbage car" leading the way.

The last light of the day casts its warm glow on the nose of UP 8431 as it leads a westbound basin hauler through West Pomona on the former SP Alhambra Sub.

With a colorful power consist up front, an eastbound manifest heading to Barstow passes the crossovers at Lugo.

Basking in the late afternoon light near the Mojave airport, ex-Apalachicola Northern SW9 RMPX 711 is resplendent in its new red paint.

Approaching the small town of Acton, detouring northbound Amtrak train #14 hugs lower Soledad Canyon Road as the train nears the top of the grade.

After having detoured across Tehachapi Pass earlier in the afternoon, southbound train #11 nears Los Angeles as it snakes through Soledad Canyon on the former Southern Pacific Saugus Line.

A spring afternoon in the Mojave Desert finds a trio of EMD's bringing a westbound stack train out of Afton Canyon on UP's Cima Sub.

With heavy traffic ahead, new SD70AH-T4 UP 3012 leads the MSCWC past the large Cemex plant at East Victorville located along BNSF's Cajon Subdivision near the old station site of Leon.

With movie cameras mounted on the lead locomotive, a special 4-car BNSF train for an upcoming IMAX production cruises north through Sandcut just minutes before sunset on Union Pacific's Mojave Sub... (more)

A pair UP ES44's are spliced by an SD9043MAC as they lead a northbound empty potash train up the former SP Saugus Line, caught blasting out of Tunnel 19 in Soledad Canyon.

A light rain falls as detouring northbound Amtrak train #14 starts its way through the loop at Walong in the Tehachapi mountains.

Lugging a train of potash empties for Trona, UP 7769 begins the downhill run to Palmdale, having just crested the top of Soledad Canyon at Vincent Hill less than a mile behind.

Late afternoon along the Metrolink Valley-Ventura Subdivision in Glendale finds an Antelope Valley line train on its evening run to Lancaster.

A former Rio Grande SD40T-2 heads up the Gemco Hauler as it begins its trek across the L.A. basin from West Colton to Van Nuys, seen here on the balloon track at Pepper Ave. with the tail end of t... (more)

Heading west on the former Santa Fe Pasadena Sub. the BNSF City of Hope Christmas Train rolls through the foothill town of San Dimas, passing the ex-ATSF depot which is home to the Pacific Railroa... (more)