A Union Pacific officer's special cruises past the Amtrak locomotive maintenance facility at Redondo Junction as it heads for its final destination of Long Beach. In the background, the newly rest... (more)

Let's Try This Again... On April 29, Amtrak's second Phase II anniversary unit, AMTK 130, was leading Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight through the Central Coast agriculture community of ... (more)

With looming thunderheads providing the backdrop, ACE 4, the first eastbound train of the day, curves through Altamont Pass and over the original 1915-built, Western Pacific Railroad bridge on its... (more)

Following the passage of the second of three large storms to pound the southern half of California this past week, massive amounts of water remain scattered across the central coast in areas unabl... (more)

Crawling through a Form A at Monolith in the late afternoon light, UP 2619 leads a colorful, Elsey-bound empty Herzog ballast train upgrade the final mile toward the summit of Tehachapi.

Amtrak 14 approaches the south end of Woodford siding as it makes its way across the 4th crossing of the Tehachapi Creek riverbed on a warm, summer's afternoon. On days like this it's hard to imag... (more)

Prior to the west coast being slammed by storms in early 2017, the ex-Southern Pacific (SP) coast line looked fairly tranquil in scenes such as this one brought to you just north of Gaviota. Looki... (more)

AMTK 459, one of only two F59PHi's still on Amtrak property in Los Angeles (at the time the photo was taken), bathes in the morning light across from the Redondo turntable as it's prepared for its... (more)

A German Steam Engne In...Fillmore? That's right - for the first time ever in the United States, 1935-built "Buckeye" operated under her own power. Built by the Orenstein & Koppel... (more)

After a seven year absence, Amtrak's sole-operating Great Dome car, the 1955-built "Ocean View," returned to a regularly scheduled Pacific Surfliner train as it joined the single-level H... (more)

Crossing the 115-year-old, ex-Southern Pacific bridge that still spans the banks of the Salinas River for the Union Pacific Railroad, UP 2617 leads a late afternoon edition of the coast line's fam... (more)

The ex-New York Central private car "Dagny Taggart" brings up the markers of Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight this afternoon as the train departs Santa Barbara for points north.

The First...and Last Time. Skirting the Pacific Ocean on a warm, summer day is AMTK 161 - wearing the newly applied 50th Anniversary Phase I paint scheme - as it leads Amtrak Train No. 14, ... (more)

Amtrak 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, negotiates the curves of the Elkhorn Slough as it carries the private cars "Silver Splendor," "Overland Trail" and "Plaza Santa Fe" on the rear - all bou... (more)

The morning light finds GCRY 29 bringing the first northbound train of the day out of the small yard at Williams and onto the main prior to shoving back into the depot to board. This trip will mar... (more)