It's been more than a year since the first EMD F125 arrived on Metrolink's property...and yet, the commuter rail agency continues to struggle in bringing the new units online. In the meantime, the... (more)

A Union Pacific officer's special cruises past the Amtrak locomotive maintenance facility at Redondo Junction as it heads for its final destination of Long Beach. In the background, the newly rest... (more)

With looming thunderheads providing the backdrop, ACE 4, the first eastbound train of the day, curves through Altamont Pass and over the original 1915-built, Western Pacific Railroad bridge on its... (more)

Amtrak 14 approaches the south end of Woodford siding as it makes its way across the 4th crossing of the Tehachapi Creek riverbed on a warm, summer's afternoon. On days like this it's hard to imag... (more)

AMTK 459, one of only two F59PHi's still on Amtrak property in Los Angeles (at the time the photo was taken), bathes in the morning light across from the Redondo turntable as it's prepared for its... (more)

Following the passage of the second of three large storms to pound the southern half of California this past week, massive amounts of water remain scattered across the central coast in areas unabl... (more)

After a seven year absence, Amtrak's sole-operating Great Dome car, the 1955-built "Ocean View," returned to a regularly scheduled Pacific Surfliner train as it joined the single-level H... (more)

Crawling through a Form A at Monolith in the late afternoon light, UP 2619 leads a colorful, Elsey-bound empty Herzog ballast train upgrade the final mile toward the summit of Tehachapi.

A German Steam Engne In...Fillmore? That's right - for the first time ever in the United States, 1935-built "Buckeye" operated under her own power. Built by the Orenstein & Koppel... (more)

Prior to the west coast being slammed by storms in early 2017, the ex-Southern Pacific (SP) coast line looked fairly tranquil in scenes such as this one brought to you just north of Gaviota. Looki... (more)

The ex-New York Central private car "Dagny Taggart" brings up the markers of Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight this afternoon as the train departs Santa Barbara for points north.

Skirting the ex-Southern Pacific coast line along the Carpentaria Bluffs, Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight lives up to its namesake as it heads toward its next station stop of Santa Barbara.

The morning light finds GCRY 29 bringing the first northbound train of the day out of the small yard at Williams and onto the main prior to shoving back into the depot to board. This trip will mar... (more)

In a stroke of luck, the sun has broken through the dense overcast that is famous in the Bay Area and found its way not only onto the original Southern Pacific Bayshore roundhouse that still stand... (more)

Crossing the 115-year-old, ex-Southern Pacific bridge that still spans the banks of the Salinas River for the Union Pacific Railroad, UP 2617 leads a late afternoon edition of the coast line's fam... (more)