With some 10 tank cars and a caboose (serving as a buffer car) on the drawbar, Fillmore & Western's motive power for today made up of a GP35 and F7A trundle down the jointed rails of the ex-Southe... (more)

Decked out for our nation's celebration of Independence Day, Fillmore & Western No. 14 looks sharp in the morning light shortly after joining its train at the Fillmore depot.

Highballing Hanford on signal indication, AMTK 84 leads this afternoon's edition of Amtrak 719 west out of the depot as palm trees nearby continue to bear the brunt of a passing wind storm.

The morning light spills over the hillsides and onto the town of Fillmore as the Fillmore & Western's pride of the fleet, No. 14, builds pressure in the yard prior to shuffling over to its train f... (more)

Metrolink 117, led this evening by an aging and endangered F59PH, emerges from Tunnel 27 as it heads for Tunnel 26 that will deposit the train in Simi Valley.

Having just made a hook to its two-car train, Southern Pacific No. 18 simmers in the morning light at the Laws depot on a historic weekend for the small, Owens Valley community. Dubbed the "Slim P... (more)

Engineer Bob Mellor prepares to take to take Amtrak 777 out of Simi Valley. Of special interest to model railroaders, today's train includes a long-distance sightseer lounge car in the consist, wh... (more)

Using the outbound LOF66's power for this morning's switching duties, the crew of the LOL30 brings a hefty string up empty tie cars out onto the main as they prepare to shove back into another tra... (more)

Twisting and turning toward the small town of Casmalia, Amtrak 1790 heads south for Los Angeles with the lower-level equipment along with the private cars Overland Trail, Pacific Trail and Acoma.

Cumbres & Toltec 487, now 96-years-old, has earned her keep another day as the original DRGW locomotive is moments away from cresting the summit of Cumbres Pass. The 1925 product of Baldwin will t... (more)

A thirsty Fillmore & Western No. 14 takes on water between trips at the ex-Southern Pacific Santa Paula depot.

With their assault on Tehachapi temporarily halted, the crew of this eastbound BNSF Q train briefly stirs in their seats as a passenger train rounds the curve and into view at Bealville. The condu... (more)

Santa Fe Lives On. AMTK 510, a General Electric (GE) B32-8BWH built in 1991 soaks up the late evening light across from the newly restored turntable here at Amtrak's Redondo Junction locomo... (more)

Making a somewhat surprise move, at least to the pair of us shooting the train this morning, Union Pacific's LOF63 has made a run up to Ventura to switch out some empty centerbeam cars in exchange... (more)

Catching the warm embrace of sunlight on this cool, winter morning, BNSF's 2019 Southern California Christmas Train bends around the hillside just east of the Swarthout Canyon Road grade crossing.... (more)