Looking sharp in the golden hour light, SCAX 921 banks into the high speed curve at milepost 429 on the Ventura Subdivision as it leads Metrolink 117 out of Simi Valley and toward its next station... (more)

Following a round trip between Los Angeles-Goleta and back on Amtrak trains 761/782, CDTX 2051 rests at the bumper of Track 12 with three Amtrak California coaches. Brought down from Oakland to as... (more)

Sunflowers soak up the warm, summer sun this afternoon at Wagon Mound as Amtrak 3, the Southwest Chief, races west as it splits the semaphore signals at the east end of the siding here.

Posing in beautiful, golden hour light, the private car Northern Sky shows off its drumhead as it and along with another pair of private cars, the Montana and Yerba Buena, coo... (more)

BNSF 7431, two additional motors on the point and a single DPU on the rear are doing all they can to lug a massive Galesburg, IL to Barstow, CA manifest upgrade at Siberia on a hot, summer afterno... (more)

Blasting out of Tunnel 1 on the Nevada Northern's Keystone Branch, NNRY No. 93 puts on a show as it leads a recreation of a wrecking train back toward Ely to the delight of photographers trackside... (more)

FWRY 3501 leads a string of empty LPG tank cars out of the Loose Caboose area east with a final destination of Fillmore.

The most beautiful train in the world... the Daylight.

Under the gloom of Southern California's morning haze, Amtrak 761 arrives into Van Nuys with Amtrak's Phase IV heritage unit on the point for the trip up to San Luis Obispo and return.

Banking into the curve on its approach to the north end of the siding, UP 8618 hustles this afternoon's passage of the LOF67 closer to Oxnard where it will set out a number of cars before continui... (more)

With a lengthy baretable train strung out behind it, BNSF 5103 heads west as it drops downgrade through Cajon Junction.

Putting the Peddle to the Metal. Well, more like putting the throttle to notch 8. In this scene BNSF 5403 the rest of the headend power put on a show as they work upgrade into Highgrove wit... (more)

Making a somewhat rare long-tender forward run to Santa Paula, Fillmore & Western No. 14 lets its Southern Pacific 6-chime whistle rip as it approaches the Highway 126 grade crossing near the Sant... (more)

After troubleshooting some PTC issues at San Luis Obispo with the help desk in Omaha, UP 7159 leads a southbound auto train out of Price Canyon and into the coastal community of Grover Beach.

Fillmore & Western No. 14 drops the 10AM train downgrade and toward the outskirts of Santa Paula as it prepares to pass Sunkist's Saticoy Lemon Association Plant 3.