The northbound Coast Starlight rolls along Grass Lake on a summer morning in 1995. The train is nearing the summit of Southern Pacific's crossing of the Southern Cascades. In about an hour, No. 14... (more)

Traveling down the middle of Long Beach Boulevard is Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Agency Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) 1120, built in 2014-2020 by Japan’s Kinki Sharyo. This train is carrying co... (more)

San Diego Metropolitan Transit System 1016, a Siemens Duewag U2 light rail vehicle, passes the classic 95-year-old Santa Fe Depot as it heads "Not in Service" to, most likely, the yard. ... (more)

Returning to Portland after overnighting in Redding, the "Shasta Daylight 1990" excursion special passes Grass Lake.

Modesto local LRS99 rumbles west back to Stockton Ca.

UP 1018 waits for a westbound freight to pass before returning to Stockton Ca. with the Modesto Local.

A westbound Shasta Route train approaches Bray, California on Memorial Day weekend 1994.

This is only the fourth Amtrak train 4, the Southwest Chief, to load its initial load of passengers in Fullerton rather than Los Angeles. This was due to a four-day shutdown of the trackag... (more)

The sun rises over the early morning Pacific Surfliner, no. 770 with AMTK 2112, pushing to Los Angeles along Mondos Beach in Ventura Ca.

ATSF 3706 receives some TLC at Needles California in 1933. The 4-8-2 has an eight car Chief in tow. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A pair of westbound BNSF Railway trains descend Cajon Pass, and one overtakes the other at CP Walker. BNSF’s California Division Christmas Train, symboled O-SBDSBD2-12A, heads downgrade after r... (more)

A pair of General Electric demonstrators, GECX 2025 and 2037, sit in the small engine facility in BNSF Railway's San Bernardino A Yard. These test locomotives were either ES44AC, ES44A6, ES44C6 o... (more)

AT&SF train number 20, The Chief, is seen at Needles California in 1933. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Trailing, dead in transit on the rear, Central Railroad of Indiana RP20BD 2002 heads up the Harbor Line on its way to the Chevron Refinery in El Segundo where it will become one of two new B&W pla... (more)

Trailing, dead in transit on the rear, Central Railroad of Indiana RP20BD 2002 heads up the Harbor Line on its way to the Chevron Refinery in El Segundo where it will become one of two new B&W pla... (more)