The theater on the lower level of newly refurbished Amtrak "Pacific Parlour Car" 39975 "Willamette Valley" is seen here on display at Fullerton Railroad Days. This car will be re-entering service... (more)

Billing itself as "The Shortest Railway in the World" (certainly the shortest railway in Los Angeles), Angels Flight is once again in operation. Opened in 1901, the railway was closed and dismant... (more)

Being serviced at Amtrak's Los Angeles Maintenance Facility on February 21, 2018, is Superliner sleeping car 32009. This car, built by Pullman-Standard in 1981, is named for George M. Pullman<... (more)

When Amtrak took over (most of) America's passenger rail operations in May 1971, they had to make due with a hodge-podge of diesels, mainly E-units, built in the 1940s and 1950s that were, to put ... (more)

... You had one job ...

A pair of Union Pacific CA-3 class cabooses, 25033 and 25031, rust away at the Los Angeles Junction Railway's facility in Vernon, California. These two cars were built in mid-1942, and unfortunat... (more)

A worker at the GATX car facility in Bloomington, California (adjacent to the Southern Pacific's West Colton Classification Yard. It's a good thing he's wearing protective gear and clothing, as h... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific iron ore train heads east under Interstate 15 and past the vineyards of Ontario in the late 70s. SP SD39 5316 is teamed with a pair of SP U33Cs to pull this 60 (or s... (more)

Amtrak "Superliner" coach 34008 has had its body raised by one of the two sets of permanent car jacks at the new Preventive Maintenance Facility at the carrier's Los Angeles engine and car shops. ... (more)

UP SD40-2 3300 leads a passenger special heading to the Republican National Convention in San Diego. The train is headed southbound on the BNSF at the site of the Santa Fe's Olive depot. Note tha... (more)

Department of Transportation U30C 001 was built by General Electric in June 1971. At one time, this locomotive wore a red and white scheme, and it spent years assigned to the United States’ Dep... (more)

On display at the 75th Anniversary Open House at General Motors Electro-Motive Division’s plant in Illinois is Janesville & Southern (a fictional railroad) 52, a BL-2. Built by EMD in March 194... (more)

After the delivery of their new Korean-built passenger cars, Metrolink had enough of their older Bombardier coaches to convert many of them to bicycle cars by removing the seats on the lower level... (more)

Best. Paint. Scheme. Ever.

Amtrak San Diegan #78 makes its stop in Santa Ana late in the day on an August 1971 afternoon. Amtrak was just over three months old at this time, ... (more)

A Decade of Difference in Design

On a smoggy day in Los Angeles, California, on April 29, 1976, a three-unit set of SDP40Fs is combined with Amtrak E9A 417. This lashup was most like... (more)