So often Amtrak train 3, the Chicago to Los Angeles Southwest Chief, arrives in southern California hours late. Naturally, on a day in which it has an interesting set of power (P42DC 203, ... (more)

Amtrak 3 heads west from Chicago to Los Angeles. (Yorba Linda, California – May 17, 2025)

Following the Santa Ana River through Santa Ana Canyon on its trip from Alliance, Texas, heading to Thenard, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is BNSF intermodal train S-ALTSCO1-14. T... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe's New York to Los Angeles intermodal train, Q-NYCLAC6-12A; very often has at least one Norfolk Southern diesel on it. On this day, it had two – NS ET44AC 3631 and A... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe's New York to Los Angeles intermodal train, Q-NYCLAC6-12A; very often has at least one Norfolk Southern diesel on it. On this day, it had two – NS ET44AC 3631 and A... (more)

Nose Door Replacement? They Came So Close...

BNSF train S-LPCLHG1-08 arrived at Esperanza (milepost 35.6 on the San Bernardino Sub) at 5:56 pm (17:56) the previous evenin... (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 tr... (more)

Running "only" 4 hours 21 minutes behind schedule, Amtrak's train 3, the Southwest Chief, rolls through the location on BNSF Railway's San Bernardino Sub known as Esperanza, overt... (more)

BNSF train H-BARWAT1-06A, with an impressive eight locomotives for power (BNSF ET44C4s 3999 and 3804, BNSF ES44AC 6211, BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4440, BNSF ET44C4 3726, BNSF ES44DC 7669, [and just barely ... (more)

Metrolink 888 thunders by as it hauls commuters home towards San Bernardino, Calif

These is a lot that is out of the ordinary here…

(1) On the left is an intermodal train (BNSF S-CDZSCO1-29L) with a Grinstein Green and Cream SD70MAC, not a usual visitor to southern ... (more)

Private cars on the rear of a late Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief.. (Yorba Linda, California – July 22. 2023)

Amtrak train 3 (Yorba Linda, California – July 22, 2023)

BNSF Railway Guaranteed Service Intermodal train Q-ATGLAC6-23A, heading from Atlanta, Georgia, to Los Angeles, isn’t very long this day, warranting only two diesels. But with a Norfolk Southern... (more)

Now that summer has arrived, the green hills have turned into fuel for the wildfires that plague the west each year, but fortunately on this day there were no fires in Santa Ana Canyon (as there w... (more)