I'm sure I'm going to get some heat for my snark, but just having a bit of fun. Picking my mom up on Amtrak in Van Nuys, CA, I got in the car only to have Waze tell me that traffic meant the tr... (more)

With a storm brewing over the Trinity Alps, a pair of ex-Southern Pacific SD70Ms depart Black Butte with a manifest, heading for Oregon.

Another EB manifest at Bertram lead by a recent rebuild, #6996.

UP 7007 leads an eastbound manifest east of Bertram, 2nd in a large pack of morning EB's.

Eastbound military move along the Yuma Sub at Bertram.

Amtrak train 5, the tri-weekly westbound San Francisco Zephyr, crosses the snow-covered Sierra Nevada Mountains as it heads west from Chicago to Oakland … but, oddly, not to its namesake ... (more)

BNSF Railway's California Division Christmas Train operated a pair of 50-mile round-trips on the railway's Cajon Sub from San Bernardino, California, to the Summit of Cajon Pass. The second trip ... (more)

Having conquered Cajon Pass, the Pacific Railroad Society's 75th Anniversary special (symboled UP AMT966-02) heads across the Mojave Desert on its way from Los Angeles to Bakersfield. This is UP'... (more)

As the set sets, Metrolink Inland Empire-Orange Line train 860 departs the station in Orange as it heads from Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo to downtown San Bernardino. (The train usually originates... (more)

Santa Fe RSD-15 "Alligator" #847 leads four units on a westbound symbol train out of Summit in September 1969. Alco RSD-15 #847 with 2400 hp was built in 1960, Santa Fe rostered the... (more)

A loaded grain train passes through the Araz crossovers in the early afternoon.

A large shield GE leads an eastbound manifest near the Sidewinder Road crossing at Araz.

Eastbound priority intermodal passes through Modesto Ca

Fast moving BNSF manifest travels east through Escalon Ca.

UP SD70ACe #8518 sporting the large nose logo leads a westbound between Bertram and Frink on the Yuma Sub.