BNSF 6729 leads an eastbound container train up grade out of Ludlow, CA.

BNSF power at on UP rails at Famoso after delivering a grain load to Western Milling.

UP 6477 brings up the rear of a southbound MRVLB at Woodford.

UP 5888 leads as southbound manifest under Highway 58 as it works through Woodford.

NVRR GP9 #69 at Napa.

DEcember days are short, and as Amtrak Pacific Surfliner Weekend Service train 580 arrives at the Orange station at 3:45 pm (15:45) the sun is already very low in the sky ... but providing... (more)

Santa Fe Steam on a Santa Fe Turntable

After returning to Los Angeles from 2013's annual San Bernardino Railroad Days display, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 has re... (more)

Four in Fresh Paint!

A quartet of brand-new Union Pacific SD70ACe diesels sit on the Dolores Industrial Lead near the railroad's Dolores Yard. Coupled behind UP 8813 are ... (more)

BNSF 3988 brings up the rear of a southbound manifest between Edison and Sandcut.

Grain train power at Pixley.

UP's Monolith local departs for the trip back to Mojave.

As BNSF train M-BARSBD1-09A (Regular Merchandise; Barstow CA to San Bernardino CA) passes through Cajon at 9:07 am, much of the snow that was here earlier in the morning has melted. This train, m... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 572, heading from Los Angeles to San Diego, passes through CP Maple, the junction of Metrolink's Orange Sub and Olive Sub (and thus the plethora of switches), in Or... (more)

New addition to the Cal Northern fleet at Napa Jct.

Rolling through Blue Cut is Union Pacific ore train OTNLB 01, which originated in Trona (in California's Mojave Desert) and is headed for the Port of Long Beach. Nine-month-old ES44AC 8089 leads ... (more)