Living up to its name, Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner 'surfs' along the California coast line as it races across the iconic trestle at Gaviota in the afternoon light with the private cars "Overla... (more)

BNSF C44-9W 4437 painted in H3 paint along with a KCS belle lead a westbound SALTOIG at Homer as it climbs the stiff grade up Goffs Hill.

With its station work complete, a lengthy Amtrak 1761 departs the ex-Southern Pacific Santa Barbara depot for its next station stop of Goleta with the Los Angeles-based private cars "Overland... (more)

A hot eastbound Z train lead by BNSF 8327 and a pair of NS units blow through Bagdad in the late morning.

BNSF's Westbound VBLUSBD lead by an NS SD70ACU rebuild and a CP GE, drop down off Ash Hill on the Needles Sub.

With C&NW 'heritage' yellow and green up front Union Pacific's eastbound 'Brooklyn trailers' drift down grade at Warren, nearly at the end of its crossing of the Tehachapis.

Battling the grade off Gold Tree horseshoe curve, UP 8094 leads 65 empty oil cans into the southern end of the Chorro siding as the coast line's iconic freight train prepares to meet Amtrak's sout... (more)

With its station work complete, Amtrak 774 highballs Oxnard and meets a parked Union Pacific autorack train as it turns into the morning light. Following the passage of trains 774, 763 and 14, the... (more)

SP 9019 waits patiently in the helper spur for the next eastbound train out of West Colton to arrive. Soon the helper set will be cut in to the train and begin the push east up Banning Pass.

SCAX 907, one of the only F125's cleared to be operating on the mainline, makes the first daylight appearance for its unit's class on the company's Ventura County Line (Ventura Subdivision) as it ... (more)

Dropping downgrade off Cuesta Pass, Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight crosses the original 1894-built, ex-Southern Pacific Stenner Creek Trestle that spans the 930-foot long gap between hillside... (more)

A Roundhouse No More... UP 8094 leads the northbound ODOWP-10 into San Luis Obispo on a warm, fall afternoon as the head end passes the remains of the once bustling roundhouse here. Origin... (more)