Climbing upgrade across the Tehachapi Mountains is a Santa Fe eastbound, with ATSF GP60 4027, ATSF FP45 93, Union Pacific SD40-2 3284 and UP SD40-2 3703 for power. (Bealville, California – Ma... (more)

Running 33 minutes late is Metrolink train 684, an Orange County Line train heading to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo from Los Angeles. This 5-car commuter train has SCAX Hyundai-Rotem CTC-5 cab car... (more)

As Metra train 1253 (with METX F40PHM-2 200 for power) makes a stop at the BNSF Line’s Harlem Avenue Station, Metra train 1255 (behind F40PHM-2 192) speeds through the station on its way to Auro... (more)

San Joaquin Valley Railroad GP9R 104, seen here at the railroad's headquarters in Exeter, in California's San Joaquin Valley, is ex-Kyle Railroad 104, ex-San Diego & Arizona Eastern 104, and was o... (more)

A Union Pacific freight, with DDA40X 6945, SD40-2 3235 and SD40s 3002 and 3004 for power, crests Cajon Pass as it heads east. (Summit, Cajon Pass, California – March 5, 1976)

A solid set of Norfolk Southern locomotives in southern California? Then it is more-than-likely BNSF train BNSF Q-NYCLAC, which has NS power so often that some local railfans have become blasé a... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train V-SDGBAR (Vehicles; San Diego CA to Barstow CA) winds through the Santa Ana Canyon and, as it passes through the Green River Golf Course, the train has j... (more)

JLCX GP20 2002 was built by EMD in January 1962 as St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) GP20 816, and when parent company Southern Pacific renumbered their fleet in 1965 it became SSW 4046. When ... (more)

BNSF Railway train V-SBDWAT4-01, a vehicle train that originated in San Bernardino and was headed to Watson, near the port of Los Angeles, is powered by a pair of Norfolk Southern locomotives – ... (more)

Metrolink train 815, making its way from downtown San Bernardino to Oceanside, departs its stop in Orange. Metrolink F125 917, shoving on the rear of the train, is seen under a heavy blanket of s... (more)

Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard opened in 1972, and for use on the hump the railroad purchased six SD38-2s to be mated with slugs built from retired Alco C-628s and C-630s. But the SP kept ex... (more)

Santa Fe Railway’s flagship freight train, the hot Super C, has just begun its daily high-speed trip from Los Angeles to Chicago with a load of piggyback trailers on flat cars. One of th... (more)

Amtrak train 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, is stopped at the train’s first station stop to load passengers. Amtrak P42DC 25 (MUed with P42DC 50) has a clear signal this evening but i... (more)

Brookville Equipment Corporation BL20CG 259 (rebuilt from MEC GP38 259) is seen here demonstrating on southern California’s Pacific Harbor Line’s Pier A in Wilmington (a part of the city of Lo... (more)

Passing through Guangzhou, China, is one of the country's first high-speed trains - a CRH1A electric multiple unit (EMU) trainset. The CRH1 EMU, also known as Hexie (meaning "Harmony"),... (more)