A UP switch job rests between assignments on a cold winter night at the former SP J-Yard several miles south of downtown Los Angeles.

A pair of Sunday afternoon Metrolink trains meet on the double track at Pomona on the SCRRA San Gabriel Subdivision, this particular segment part of Southern Pacific's old Baldwin Park branch.

A pair of new generation switching locomotives handle a cut of cars at the west end of the former SP yard at City of Industry.

Early morning along the BNSF San Bernardino Subdivision at Highgrove finds a westbound BNSF intermodal speeding by as it heads toward the Los Angeles Harbor. Friendly railfan and RP contributor Ma... (more)

Ethanol empties return east on the busy BNSF transcon as they cross the mighty Colorado River bridge at Topock on a brisk winter afternoon in northwestern Arizona.

Continuing a Santa Fe tradition, the BNSF's annual City of Hope Christmas train speeds eastbound through Rancho Cucamonga on the former Pasadena Subdivision, and in a few moments will arrive Archi... (more)

The constant parade of intermodal moving through Cajon Pass is evident on a beautiful Spring morning as the BNSF 7800 west approaches Sullivan's Curve while a passing eastbound climbs the grade to... (more)

With the Big Horn River down below, the annual AAPRCO convention special is nearly out of the Wind River Canyon as the train heads into the town of Thermopolis and then north to Montana over the B... (more)

Some vintage BNSF power switches cars at the Commerce Intermodal Facility located a few miles east of Los Angeles.

On a chilly winter night in the Los Angeles basin, a pair of classic Santa Fe GP30's are tied down for the evening across from the Commerce Metrolink station.

Deep in the heart of Soledad Canyon, detouring northbound Amtrak train #14 passes the siding at Ravenna on the Metrolink Valley Subdivision in Soledad Canyon.

Now on the last lap into Los Angeles, a westbound stack train from Chicago with a Tier 4 GE demonstrator unit on the point passes through the cut at Grand Terrace near Colton on the BNSF San Berna... (more)

A westbound Global 1 to Los Angeles doublestack nears Cima Summit on the old LA&SL, and will soon begin the slow descent to Kelso.

A warm spring afternoon in the Tehachapi mountains finds a southbound BNSF general merchandise freight working uphill between Tunnel 10 and Marcel.

Both an empty UP coal train and local are tied down on the south end of Union Pacific's Lone Pine Subdivision in Mojave.