Southbound San Joaquin departs Modesto, passing AT&SF 2921.

Southbound San Joaquin races through Empire Ca.

Amtrak 768 crosses the UP Brea Chemical Industrial Lead at grade at Los Nietos as they head towards San Diego.

Just as the sun sets below the horizon, Amtrak train 1584 arrives at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC), the new Amtrak and Metrolink passenger station between Anaheim, ... (more)

Amtrak San Joaquin train arrives in Bakersfield with a train made up of Amtrak California Comet cars and one horizon car.

An Amtrak Pacific Surfliner shoves its way towards LA (looming in the background) as it crosses the LA River on the Redondo Flyover.

A northbound Surfliner heads between Budweiser buildings as it heads into single-track territory.

Amtrak 719 departs Bakersfield with an F59 leading a single level set of mostly ex-New Jersey Transit coaches.

Amtrak 763 and Metrolink 660 meet on the west end of the Redondo Flyover, just north of the crossing of the Alameda Corridor (which is in the foreground). The LA skyline can be seen behind the tra... (more)

The EMD F59PHI locomotives are becoming a rare breed in California these days. CDTX 2014 departs Bakersfield on time with its Emeryville California bound train.

A Pacific Surfliner SC-44 Charger prepares to carry the markers on train 583 to Los Angeles.

A sparkly new California Department of Transportation Charger pulls a Surfliner set west under the vestigial remnant of the Busch Gardens pedestrian bridge.

Running a couple of minutes early, the Southbound Coast Starlight rounds the curve around collapsed and abandoned Tunnel 10 on Cuesta in San Luis Obispo.

CDTX 2120, one of the last SC-44 Chargers delivered to Amtrak California for service on the Pacific Surfliner corridor, emerges from the darkness of the 7,369-foot long Tunnel 26 as it brings Amtr... (more)