Built in March of 1957, JDHX 50 first saw service on the Nickle Plate Railroad as NKP 342. Some 59 years later and after seeing service on both the Norfork & Western and Norfork Southern, the vete... (more)

Looking down the right of way, one wonders...is this this Central Valley or the Santa Maria Valley? In reality, it's a warm morning in the small community of Betteravia, located just west of Santa... (more)

The cylinder cocks on the big, Santa Fe Baldwin release a shot of steam outward on the fireman's side of the locomotive as 3751 eases off the Redondo turntable and onto one of the "whisker" tracks... (more)

Black Widow Reflections. Catching a pocket a sunlight between runs out of Lebanon, LLW 5399 glistens on the point of its colorful Candy Cane Express train as it casts a reflection in a near... (more)

SP 4449, a 1941-built product of the Lima Locomotive Works, is still able to bring Portland to a stand still as the 80-year locomotive puts on a show of steam power as it departs the Oregon Rail H... (more)

No, this isn't a cartoon. As Cartoon Network's skyscraper looms in the background, a cartoon-like consist rests in the coast siding just north of Burbank Junction on a cool evening. Made u... (more)

Battling the stiff grade out of Bealville as the sun dips below the horizon, Amtrak 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, turns toward Tunnel 3 as it detours over Tehachapi Pass. Turning inland afte... (more)

The rear-end of CDTX 2114, a new SC-44 Charger built by Siemens in Sacramento, rests on one of the whisker tracks at the Redondo Turntable as it shares stalls with the AMTK 464 - a soon to be repl... (more)

With its excursions over Cajon Pass, benefitting the Rail Giants Train Museum, and display days in West Colton complete, UP 4014 and it's train of business cars highballs Southern California and b... (more)

SP Lives On...Kind of. With their day's work complete, UP's LOL30 ties up in Lompoc this afternoon and waits for the crew van to arrive. The following morning the crew will return to their ... (more)

With the servicing stop near Cajon Junction, UP 4014 leads Big Boy 4014 and the UP steam program's support cars upgrade toward the towering Mormon Rocks as the massive 4-8-8-4 continues on its jou... (more)

Battling upgrade out of Beaville, BNSF 8251 leads a southbound grain train out of Tunnel 3 and past the long-abandoned Tunnel 4 as it works its way toward Cliff and Tunnel 5. Drones have not opene... (more)

NNRY 40 and 93 carefully back their mixed train up the wye at Ruth as an aging loading dock here sits waiting for its next load...perhaps never to come, even if only for a photo op.

SCAX 907, one of the only F125's cleared to be operating on the mainline, makes the first daylight appearance for its unit's class on the company's Ventura County Line (Ventura Subdivision) as it ... (more)

Located on the outskirts of the small community of Pixley, one of the J.D. Heiskell & Co. grain facilities stands tall against the sky on the flat floor of the Central Valley. As one drives by thi... (more)