Now Arriving at Fullerton... Making up one of the more odd consists to use the western end of BNSF's transcon route, AMTK 822, a pair of Amtrak cars, Santa Fe 3751 and the BNSF 5542 pass b... (more)

SP 4449 leads the 2017 Cascades Daylight across the towering bridge just west of downtown Madras as it closes in on its final destination of Bend, Oregon.

Rolling through the Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve, UP 7823 leads the southbound oil cans on a daylight run along the coast. Despite one of the three units not working properly, the crew has b... (more)

Framed by aging power in the form of P42DC AMTK 53 and Dash-832BWH AMTK 507, a trio of new, Siemens-built Charger locomotives (in numerical order, I might add) stand ready at Redondo Junction prio... (more)

With a light haze on the stack, SP 4449 leads the Cascades Daylight 2017 out of Bend as it splits the searchlight signals at NSS Deschutes as it heads for Prineville Junction for a date with the w... (more)

With it's weekend in Reno complete, Key Holiday's westbound Reno Fun Train leaves its namesake town as it curves through the community of Mogul on the beginning of its return trip to Oakland.

Climbing out of downtown Los Angeles, Amtrak train No. 961-30, carrying (at the time) President Joe Boardman and his aides to Modesto, curves to the east on the Redondo Flyover as it crosses the L... (more)

Climbing the relatively easy grade out of Mojave and into Tehachapi Pass, UP 2582, a new Tier 4 unit, leads the MWCRVC-08 into the snow capped hills of Monolith as it approaches the summit.

Its easy to see what the once popular "Daylight" passenger trains were called 'the most beautiful train's in the world' as they skirted the Pacific Ocean at locations like this. While the days of ... (more)

The Grand Canyon Line Lives. Dating back to the glory days of this rail line's original owner, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, this bridge crossing found just south of Las Vegas,... (more)

Having some electrical work done, AMTK 503 finds itself on one of the Redondo turntable's whisker tracks this morning as the ex-ATSF cantilever signal bridge here stands sentinel in the background... (more)

With a small rainbow slowly disappearing in the upper left, Fillmore & Western Railway's Alco S6 catches a break in the passing storm clouds as those more threatening loom above the hills in the b... (more)

As the sun sets on another day along the ex-Southern Pacific coast line, AMTK 90229 leads the southbound Amtrak 1790 south toward Ventura as the train prepares to break away from the coast for the... (more)

Making the final push to Tehachapi Summit, UP 2619 lugs a colorful Herzog ballast train toward up the eastern face of the famous pass as the Monolith cement plant stands in the background.

Two Sleek, Blue Machines. A sharp looking Dodge Challenger poses at the Santa Susana Railroad Museum in the late afternoon light as Amtrak 777 hustles into town with a new SC-44 Charger on ... (more)