With more than 900 miles on the point of an active passenger train in the last 24 hours now under its belt, BNSF 1731 idles quietly near the bumper of Track 13 with what was the westbound Southwes... (more)

Redondo Junction Nose Study. Old meets new on a cold morning in Los Angeles. A pair of new SC-44 Chargers, soon bound for service on the Pacific Surfliner system, rest near the iconic ex-AT... (more)

On the last day of the September 2019 Coast Starlight detours, Amtrak 14 works upgrade into Soledad Canyon as it leads its train through the 332-foot long bore of Tunnel No. 19 and through a priva... (more)

Two Pacific Surfliner F59PHi's live out their final days in Los Angeles on a warm, spring day at Redondo Junction. While the 462 is only briefly visiting the ex-Santa Fe locomotive maintenance fac... (more)

With his train well in hand, the engineer of GCRY 4960 briefly looks inside the cab at his steam pressure gauge before returning his gaze to the tracks ahead as Train No. 2 enters Red Lake.

Making a quick run around of their train, a colorful lash-up operating as the LOF41 today hustles past the Santa Susana depot.

With a series of storms having passed through Southern California over the past few days, the skies are almost completely clear minus a few clouds as the BNSF Christmas Train calls on Fullerton th... (more)

Skirting the Pacific Ocean with a colorful pair of additions to this afternoon's train in the form of an extra F59PHi and Amtrak's full-length dome car, Amtrak 790 passes through Emma Wood State B... (more)

In a scene that takes place twice a week, Union Pacific's northbound LOF67 skirts the Pacific Ocean at Emma Wood State Beach as it leaves Ventura behind for its trip up the coast to Guadalupe, Cal... (more)

AMTK 451 is seen spending the night at Amtrak's Redondo locomotive maintenance facility as the dramatic Los Angeles skyline towers in the background at dusk. Who would have ever thought this scene... (more)

Making good time on its southern trip down the rails that the famous Daylight passenger train once plied, Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight races across the 811-foot-long Gaviota trestle.... (more)

Former Reserve Mining SD18 No. 1229 idles quietly in the afternoon sun at the Western Milling facility in Famoso as the silhouette of a CAT wheel loader pours grain into a tractor trailer in the b... (more)

BUGX 2161 stands at one of the many grain facilities located throughout the Central Valley with an unknown future as a lengthy grain train can be seen behind it - wrapping all the way around to th... (more)

A far cry from the colorful red, orange and black GS-4's that once barked up this very grade with the famous "Daylight," CDTX 2116 carries on the tradition of hauling passengers through ... (more)

"Roaming the American West" In Luxury. With the iconic downtown Los Angeles skyline just around the corner, BNSF 8342 leads the BNSF Railway 2018 "Roaming the American West" business car sp... (more)