Slowly making its way onto the Cello bridge, SP 4449 leads the Cascade Daylight the final few hundred yards out of Oregon and over the Columbia River as it heads for the banks of Washington just w... (more)

Almost 27 years since it was built for the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, UP 1089 points its nose north toward the Watsonville yard in the midst of a downpour as one of two ex-Southern Pacific se... (more)

A Snowy Departure In...Los Angeles? As a passing winter storm continues its trek across the southland, a deadheading set of two Metrolink train's eases out of the commuter rail agency's Cen... (more)

Casting long shadows onto the ground in front of the original Southern Pacific water tank and Western Milling grain facility here, UP 7905 hustles a southbound stack train toward its next crew cha... (more)

Exiting the 3,000-foot long Tunnel 4, CalTrains 274 slows as it approaches the Bayshore station with a transit laden with commuters looking to return home from another day of work in the city by t... (more)

Rest In Pieces. The moon continues its ascent into the night sky above the 1924-built, ex-Southern Pacific station in Glendale, CA on a chilly night in Southern California. Calling on the 9... (more)

A Strata Dome Heads to its "Doom." Having run light to Piru all the way from Fillmore, the secret mission for the Fillmore & Western's GP35 comes into view as it heads back west with a hist... (more)

With 101 loaded container cars on the drawbar, BNSF 8063 leads a 9,791-foot-long San Bernardino bound Q train out of Arizona and into the Golden State as it crosses the Colorado River above boater... (more)

The first southbound Amtrak of the day, Amtrak 774, crosses the 811-foot-long span of the Gaviota trestle on its way south toward Santa Barbara.

Having completed the first half of its trip on the Ventura Sub up to Moorpark leading Metrolink 109, SCAX 908 now shoves 116 back south toward Simi Valley on its trip back to Los Angeles.

With its chores in Oxnard, Camarillo and Somis complete - UP 1375 soaks up the morning light in front of the Oxnard crew base after serving as the power for the LOF63. Built in November of 1974, t... (more)

Bringing up the rear of today's northbound Coast Starlight as it crosses the 1894-bult, 930-foot long Stenner Creek Trestle is the ex-Canadian National rear-observation car "Burrard."

An Exciting New Life Awaits...Three former Santa Fe passenger cars, SBRX 2523 / 2506 / 1161, are about to leave Arizona behind and enter their new home state of California as they cross the... (more)

Union Pacific's LOF63 local rolls east down the Santa Paula branch line at Limco on a gloomy, overcast morning as it brings four additional LPG tank cars up the Fillmore & Western Railway's tracka... (more)

As the sun closes in on the horizon to bring another day in the Central Valley to an end, a pair of historic locomtoives rest on a spur track north of the Golden State Feed & Grain facility in Gue... (more)