Returning from Los Angeles after unloading, empty northbound oil cans cross the Ventura Rivermouth heading for the San Ardo Oilfields at Wunpost for reloading. The bridges over the Ventura River... (more)

The southbound Guadalupe Local passes through Emma Wood State Park during a brilliant sunset.

Amtrak No. 11, the southbound Coast starlight on time and just before sunset, passes Summer Beach.

Living up to its name, Pacific Surfliner 790 prepares to leave the coast behind for a few hours as it approaches the city of Ventura for its next scheduled stop. Running inland making stops on its... (more)

"Business and Bikini's." Those being entertained onboard this Union Pacific sales and marketing special might have had little to talk about business-wise as they enjoyed the sights of the e... (more)

Skiritng the Pacific Ocean just north of Emma Wood State Beach, UP 2760 leads the northbound PGMSL1 11 (Gemco, Calif. to San Luis Obispo, Calif.) business car special, 17 cars total, over the ex-S... (more)

Down five plus hours and counting leaving Los Angeles, No. 14 The Coast Starlight usually passes Ventura around noon. Today it rolls past the kite surfing beach in Emma Wood State Park and into th... (more)

After a seven year absence, Amtrak's sole-operating Great Dome car, the 1955-built "Ocean View," returned to a regularly scheduled Pacific Surfliner train as it joined the single-level H... (more)

A UP officer special glides down the pacific coastline just outside of Ventura, CA, in the early hours of a perfect fall day, while surfers enjoy the morning waves.

LOF67 The westbound Guadalupe Local, from Los Angeles to Guadalupe, has a quartet of SD70M's on the point as it rounds the curve at Faria Beach.

Rolling out the final miles along the coast after completing its job of dropping rail between Santa Barbara and Seacliff, UP 4877 leads a southbound rail train toward Emma Wood State Beach and Ven... (more)

Its easy to see what the once popular "Daylight" passenger trains were called 'the most beautiful train's in the world' as they skirted the Pacific Ocean at locations like this. While the days of ... (more)

Beach goers enjoy Memorial Day along the California Coast, barely notice the passing Union Pacific's twice a week northbound Guadalupe Turn as it glides remarkably quietly on a safely separated ri... (more)

About to duck under Pacific Coast Highway just north of Ventura, the UP's northbound Guadalupe Hauler approaches Emma Wood State Beach as a beautiful evening begins to set in along the former Sout... (more)

As the sun sets on another day along the ex-Southern Pacific coast line, AMTK 90229 leads the southbound Amtrak 1790 south toward Ventura as the train prepares to break away from the coast for the... (more)