As the sun slowly begins its descent to the horizon to close out another day in California's Central Valley, Amtrak 712 races south out of Wasco toward its final destination of Bakersfield.

A bunch of stored bucket trucks (commonly called "cherry pickers") replicate how brontosauruses must've looked, or perhaps a flock of cranes (the birds, not the work equipment), as Amtra... (more)

Amtrak train #540 departs Oakland's Jack London Square onto UP's