Running a "little" behind schedule – 12 hours 45 minutes behind, in fact – is Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief heading from Chicago to Los Angeles. ... (more)

Running over 15 hours behind schdule, BNSF Officer Train O-TOPLAC8-26A is now within 40 miles of its destination, Los Angeles. This train, consisting of ES44C4 8173 and 10 business cars, originat... (more)

Looks Can Be Deceiving…

This appears to be rather ordinary: One of an endless parade of BNSF Railway intermodal trains (in this case, S-LBTMEM1-16A, heading from Long B... (more)

Running just 6 hours 53 minutes behind schedule, this day’s Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is just about to its next-to-last stop in Fullerton. (The previous day’s trai... (more)

Perhaps there is a shortage of locomotives in the Los Angeles basin, as BNSF Railway train H-BARWAT1-26A, the daily Barstow CA to Watson CA freight train, has 11 locomotives for an 84-car t... (more)

Palms and Thoroughbreds

After receiving a fresh crew, BNSF Railway Guaranteed Service Intermodal train Q-ATGLAC6-29A rolls west through Placentia on its way to Los Angeles... (more)

Running at 60 mph is Metrolink 91/Perris Valley Line train 700, with F125 922 pulling 4 cars. This train departed Los Angeles 40 minutes earlier, and it due to arrive in downtown Riverside in ano... (more)

Metrolink 91 Line train 708 passes through Placentia, where a third track is being installed. A pair of F59PHIs (887 and 878) lead this train, with CTC-5 Cab Car 666 on the rear. Ooh! Spooky! Twel... (more)

Eight days after a 10 hour 19 minute late Amtrak 3, another Amtrak 3 heads west, but is only 6 hours and 1 minute behind schedule on this day. It was, of course, for the same reason: One of the ... (more)

Rolling at train speed, 60 mph (for passenger trains) is BNSF Railway Officer Special O-LACSBD8-06A. BNSF ET44C4 7939 can handle this 10-car train easily as it heads 62 miles from Los Angeles ... (more)

BNSF Railway train S-LPCLBJ1-05A stays on the railway San Bernardino Sub at Atwood, where the old Santa Fe line split to head to San Diego. But today, it is Metrolink's Olive Sub that diverges he... (more)

Rushing commuters home to the Inland Empire, Metrolink train 704, a four-car 91/Perris Valley Line train heading from Los Angeles to Perris, has the setting sun reflecting off its sides as it pass... (more)

Running 10 minutes late and leaving the setting sun behind, Amtrak train 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, approaches Atwood, a junction of the BNSF’s San Bernardino Sub and Metrolink’s... (more)

Changes are afoot at Atwood, a BNSF station in Placentia. The searchlight signals seen on the left will soon be replaced by the tri-light signals already standing in place, and a new apartment bu... (more)

Back From the Dead … Again! I was out to catch Amtrak’s "Pepsi Can" engine on a very late Amtrak train 3, but even more rare was the next train: Metrolink 91/Perris V... (more)