Running nearly 3 hours late (due to a 17-hour late #11 and the need to cobble together another set of equipment from the yard), Amtrak's Coast Starlight nears the former CP Lockheed with the Burba... (more)

The third Veteran's unit (this one a converted cab car - originally F40PH #208) is pulled west as it works at the days LA/SLO turn's westbound baggage car.

Painted for Cascade service but now ensconced in Surfliner service, an Amtrak NCPU (rebuilt from a F40PH) takes up the rear on the morning train to San Luis Obispo.

The Dolores bound loaded oil train is passing CP Lockheed and the Bob Hope Airport station shortly after sunrise

Amtrak train number 774 needed help this morning in SLO, so UP loaned the 8333 to push the train to LA. This shot is of the 8333 returning to SLO on train 777 at Bob Hope Airport

Amtrak's Phase IV heritage unit lead today's Coast Starlight, seen here coming to a stop at Burbank Airport, aka Bob Hope Airport. As I saw this pass this location with the iconic name, all I coul... (more)

Amtrak's Operation Life Saver wrapped Surfliner F59PHI, #457, leads train #775 on its northbound trek through Bob Hope Airport Station in beautiful Burbank, CA. The wrap on this unit matches the w... (more)

A Union Pacific officer's special from San Luis Obispo to Council Bluffs is seen as it starts to gain speed after a station stop at Bob Hope Airport (reportedly to let off some execs who were flyi... (more)

Goodbye old friends! This funeral train is repositioning former Erie Lackawanna Pullman-Standard Dieseliners (later New Jersey Transit Comet 1 cars) from Moorpark to Saugus, where their fate does ... (more)

With its typo now corrected (Million had originally been spelled Millon), Amtrak's 10th anniversary Pacific Surfliner unit makes a stop at Bob Hope Airport before continuing its push into Los Ange... (more)

The northbound empty oil cans is seen just leaving Burbank Jct.

Pushing on the rear of Amtrak 784 from Goleta is "California Style" F590PHI #458 was delivered in August of 1998 and is seen here with a train of Horizon Cars (along with a Heritage Fleet baggage ... (more)

A Burbank Airport Turn pulls past the signals at CP Lockheed behind a Sound Transit F59PHI. Sound Transit #901 was on lease to Metrolink. It is Sound Transit's first California Style engine (and ... (more)

"California Style" F59PHIs were introduced by EMD in 1994. This particular one was built for the Marlboro Unlimited Train, an aborted promotional program by Phillip Morris. Even if the train had ... (more)

A Union Pacific conductor standing on SP caboose #4612 protects the shove of the Saugus Local from Gemco Yard in Van Nuys, to Burbank Junction, where the train will face the right way for its jour... (more)