On a day when 73% of the United States was covered with snow, much of it deep, along with freezing temperatures, winds, tornados and power outages, southern California was a pleasant 66ºF and the... (more)

On a crisp March morning, a former Amtrak SDP40F ATSF 5564(former Amtrak 632) rounds the horseshoe curve out of Esperanza in the Santa Ana Canyon hills on the San Bernardino Subdivision. Santa Fe ... (more)

A westbound S train comes out of Santa Ana Canyon enroute to the Ports.

Metrolink 753 approaches Esperanza with an F125 on the rear of the LA bound consist.

Z-LACWSP9 rounds the curve in the Santa Ana Canyon on the beginning of a cross country trip to the Chicago area.

A pair of GEs bring up the rear of an ethanol train as they head towards Watson.

The LACNYC rolls around the curve east of Esperanza with a quartet of GEs.

A 10 unit lite power move heads out of Santa Ana Canyon bound for the Harbor.

Passing through Santa Ana Canyon is Metrolink train 817, recently placed back into service from downtown Riverside to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo. This was a train taken out of service when the C... (more)

BNSF train S-LPKLHG1-11L heads for Los Angeles Harbor’s Global Gateway South with an interesting locomotive on the head-end: Canadian Pacific AC4400CWM 8072 (the former CP AC4400CW 9536). This ... (more)

BNSF train S-LPCLHG1-08 arrived at Esperanza (milepost 35.6 on the San Bernardino Sub) at 5:56 pm (17:56) the previous evening, having originated in Chicago’s Logistics Park. And it was still t... (more)

One of the mainlines on BNSF's triple-tracked line through Santa Ana Canyon is used to park empty Intermodal trains that are awaiting space in either Los Angeles' Hobart Yard or in the ports of Lo... (more)

Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is running 6 hours 15 minutes late as it passes through Esperanza, in the western end of Santa Ana Canyon. This train experienced a 4-hour... (more)

Parked on one of the three mainlines at Esperanza, BNSF train S-LPCLHG2-03 (Intermodal Stacks; Logistics Park Chicago IL to Los Angeles Harbor CA-GGS) may be awaiting a new crew as there appears t... (more)