This is the international border between Mexico and the United States on the old San Diego & Arizona Eastern (as snapped from a passing train traveling between Campo CA and Garcia, BC, Mexico.

The rare-mileage run to Garcia (35 miles) over the Tijuana y Tecate, nears the station in Campo. The museum provided tramles de pescado y tamales de pollo, as we traveled through Lindero, Tecate, ... (more)

The Union Pacific hands off a train of empty LPG cars for storage to the Fillmore & Western at the eastern end of the Santa Paula team tracks.

An SD9 drills past a partially painted BNSF Dash 9. #6195 was delivered to the CB&Q as #448 in September of 1957. I am told that this unit was a regular at Yardley for many years. #4810 was ju... (more)

All of Metrolinks F59PHs, F59PHRs, F59PHIs, and one F40PH are reported to now be retired. Most of them are in Keller Yard in downtown LA (along with the three leased LTEX F59PHs). Went today to ge... (more)

Once the leader of a dinner train, this old FP7 has apparently now been sitting on this spur for quite a few years with an uncertain future.

Penn Central, NJDOT and Conrail E8As sit at the South Amboy engine house. Amazingly, all three of these old bulldogs survive. PC 4326 had been NYC 4083 (was the last E8A painted in PC black), and ... (more)

Risked life and limb with a friend, standing on the double yellow line in the middle of Vermont Boulevard in Gardena CA on March 18, 2022 to get a new angle on the LOW10 Torrance Local coming into... (more)

The sun and storm clouds combine with a sligthly shallow depth of field to give the LA skyline an almost painted appearance, as it's guarded by a Genset across the Los Angeles River. Image was tak... (more)

I was done shooting for the day and walking back to my car, when the Amtrak from San Diego to LA started blowing behind me. Clouds and a leading cab car, I wasn't planning on a photo. Then the sun... (more)

The power that brought us up to the summit as train #41 pulls away to begin its runaround as we become train #42 and prepare for our run back to Skagway, Alaska, and the US of A. The body of water... (more)

For awhile in the late 1970s there was a deadline sitting along Route 9 in Croton NY with a selection of the original PC/MTA painted FL9s (with white nose) and some never repainted New Haven units... (more)

The El Segundo Local runs under the parking lot bridges of the abandoned Hawthorne Mall as it heads back towards Los Angeles with pulls from Chevron and one skybox delivery for Triumph Aircraft.

A Pacific Harbor Line Genset and a BNSF Liquified Natural Gas MK1200G are being started up for the day at Knoll during a pending Winter storm. The units are on the Tosco Spur and will be used to ... (more)

The "Central Coast Surfliner," Amtrak's Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo roundtrip, is on its way back to LA as it passes along the beach in Serena and heads towards Sandyland, following alongside i... (more)