The rare mileage special is actually between Buckhorn and Piru as it crosses beneath the mountains in the beautifully still agricultural Santa Clara River Valley (aka Heritage Valley). It is seen ... (more)

The CalRail 2020 special crosses the Sespe Creek Bridge on its way toward downtown Fillmore. While this is a rare mileage special, by this portion it is travelling on trackage that can be ridden a... (more)

A rare mileage run for CalRail 2020 in Ventura's convention, has just crossed Briggs on its way towards Piru. I took this photograph under the watchful eye of two policemen, who then questioned me... (more)

A rare mileage run for CalRail 2020 in Ventura's convention, departs Saticoy, heading east to Piru. Saticoy depot is pretty much intact from what the Southern Pacific had built here (although now ... (more)

Christmas Tree Train lumbers back to Fillmore with a tree-filled flat car under a setting sun.

The Fillmore & Western Christmas Tree Train makes its stop at the tree farm. Hordes of festive travelers wielding saws then launched an assault on the pines until the flat car was stacked high w... (more)

Student engineers were able to operate this neat little Porter 0-4-0T "The Sespe" on short runs to its namesake Sespe Creek during Santa Clara River Valley Railroad Historical Society's Railfest 2... (more)

Under the rainstorm that dampened Santa Clara River Valley Railroad Historical Society's Railfest 2005 sat the "24 Train" a streamlined matched set that opened Season Four of the hit Fox Televisio... (more)

Santa Clara River Valley Railroad Historical Society's Railfest 2005 was held even though the skies opened up with a downpour. The railroad put a lot of equipment on display between the Southern P... (more)

The 2:00 PM PumpkinLiner sits at "IchaBog" the Fillmore & Western's private Pumpkin Patch along Telegraph Road in Santa Paula (steps away from the one time location of the Southern Pacific Kevet s... (more)

As part of Santa Clara River Valley Railroad Historical Society's Railfest 2007, the public enjoyed speeder rides on the Fillmore & Western between regular trains. A friend's reaction seeing this... (more)

Fillmore & Western's two ex CNW F7As run around their train at Santa Paula before beginning a run back to Fillmore and Piru. They are painted as the "Coastal Blueliner" for a recent movie shoot. F... (more)

Returning from Santa Paula, a Fillmore & Western Santa Paula Express heads over the 1902 open truss Sespe Creek Bridge in honor of Santa Clara River Valley Railroad Historical Society's Railfest 2... (more)

Railfest 2006, a celebration of railroading put on annually by the Santa Clara River Valley Railroad Historical Society was truly special as it resulted in the first "revenue" passenger train to P... (more)