Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, has unloaded its passenger after arriving on Track 9 at Los Angeles Union Station 1 hour 30 minutes late. AMTK P42DCs 137 and 189 had 9 cars ... (more)

Metrolink MP36PH-3C (aka a Boise Bullet) sits ready for its next run at Los Angeles Union Station.

A Santa Monica bound Metro Rail trains pulls in for its station stop at Expo Park/USC on September 6, 2025. Rising above the train in the background, and looking like an historic church, is the ne... (more)

The Union Pacific LOW10 El Segundo Local enters the curve at Compton Avenue (between Centralia and Watts) as it prepares to enter the Wilmington Sub (the one time four-track Pacific Electric main)... (more)

On track 12 Union Pacific E9A 904 leads train 108 the City of Los Angeles, and on track 11 Santa Fe F7(A) 305 leads train 19 the combined Super Chief/EL Capitan at Los Angeles Union Terminal ... (more)

Making its way west on Washington Boulevard is a Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority A Line train, with Kinki Sharyo P3010 1104 on the front. Curiously, the destinatio... (more)

Taylor Yard hump and yard my 70's photos: https://www.railpictures.net/album/8659/

ATSF 570 at Los Angeles California in 1933. Otto Conrad Perry photo, my collection.

Amtrak Super Chief awaits departure in Los Angles

A pair of BNSF Railway diesels, ET44C4 3755 and ES44C4 7014, are tucked away on the trackage connecting the railway's San Bernardino Sub in Commerce (a city in which every building pretty much loo... (more)

Union Pacific GP40-2 1394, the former Saint Louis-Southwestern (Cotton Belt) 7638, sits in the UP's J Yard south of downtown Los Angeles. As with so many Union Pacific locomotive assigned to urba... (more)

Fantasy paint scheme? I think this unit had white lettering that somehow came off. I like the variety. As a modeler I'd rather see some of the many real but ignored paint schemes be offered ins... (more)

Santa Fe Steam on a Santa Fe Turntable

After returning to Los Angeles from 2013's annual San Bernardino Railroad Days display, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 has re... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner F59PHI 456 is about to take a spin on turntable in the carrier's Redondo Junction Engine Facility, as it is pulled from one of the whisker tracks and moved, via a R... (more)

On August 8, 1967 Southern Pacific FP7 6455 and a B-unit arrived with a nine-car No. 99 the Los Angeles-bound Coast Daylight, crossing the ATSF tracks at Mission Junction near the Los Angeles... (more)