Potential trackside housing is found in Ludlow while outside a westbound shooter heads toward Barstow on BNSF's Needles Sub.

At sunset an eastbound UP manifest eases by New Siding and approaches the busy yard at City of Industry.

Summer is winding down in the Tehachapi mountains as a northbound BNSF manifest twists through the curves at Sandcut on the Mojave Sub on this late August afternoon.

Westbound train #785 accelerates through Basta after making its station stop at Fullerton.

Amtrak's "Tehachapi Starlight" winds through the curves at Rowen as it nears the sound end of the siding.

The faces of modern railroading in the central California town of Tracy bask in the morning sunshine.

Just east of Hill 582, an eastbound BNSF container train powered by elephant style GE's climbs the last few miles to Cajon summit on a beautiful winter morning in southern California.

Just east of Victorville, a westbound Union Pacific manifest train approaches the cement plant at Oro Grande on BNSF's Cajon Sub.

Near El Casco in San Timoteo Canyon, renumbered SD90MAC UP 3477 leads a manifest train east on the former SP Sunset Route.

A pair of former Santa Fe GP30's still earn their keep on the BNSF as they help assemble a container train at the intermodal facility located near the Commerce Metrolink platform.

Just a few miles outside of Los Angeles, an eastbound UP doublestack container train is getting underway on its trip east over the Sunset Route as it heads through the Alhambra Trench on an early ... (more)

Still functioning as the Magnetic Signal Co. and the Southern Pacific intended, one of the few remaining Wig Wags still serving a Class I railroad in southern California clanks away along the ex-S... (more)

BNSF 4471 and three NS thoroughbreds power an eastbound TOFC train through the newly widened 3-main-track cut at Summit.

Working through a cold winter haze, UP 5390 leads a Roseville to West Colton general merchandise freight as it tops the summit just east of downtown Tehachapi.

The BNSF City of Hope Christmas Train passes a renovated citrus packing house along the old Santa Fe Pasadena Sub in La Verne located in the eastern San Gabriel Valley. The train is carrying child... (more)