Bringing up the markers on San Diego-bound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 1564 is AMTK non-Powered Control Unit 90278 (ex-AMTK F40PH 278). When the prime mover (diesel engine) was removed, they ... (more)

Following the Santa Ana River through Santa Ana Canyon on its trip from Alliance, Texas, heading to Thenard, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is BNSF intermodal train S-ALTSCO1-14. T... (more)

One would presume that Metrolink isn't in a huge rusn for these two new EMD F125 locomotives (SCAX 939 and 942), as this train, BNSF Railway J-SXRLAC9-20A (High/Wide Move; Streator IL to Los Angel... (more)

Departing the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority "L Line" (formerly the "Gold Line") Lake Station, located in the median of Interstate 210, below Pasadena... (more)

Climbing Cajon Pass, and passing through Cajon (the location of the old Santa Fe depot in the heart of the Pass), is BNSF Railway H-WATBAR9-27, "High Priority Merchandise" heading from W... (more)

BNSF train S-ALTLHG1-15L (Intermodal Stacks running from Alliance TX to Los Angeles Harbor GGS CA) cools its heels ... er. wheels, as it waits for traffic ahead of it. BNSF SD70MACe 9749 and ES44... (more)

Union Pacific's Marlboro Local has just crossed Meats Avenue as it backs through the industrial area served by this job. UP GP40P-2 1375 and GP60 1083 are shoving two box cars back to the rest of... (more)

Running a "little" behind schedule – 12 hours 45 minutes behind, in fact – is Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief heading from Chicago to Los Angeles. ... (more)

With a pair of ET44C4s, 3684 and 3755, for power, BNSF Railway train V-SBDSDG4-11A (San Bernardino to San Diego), passes through Control Point Maple, and off Metrolink's Olive Sub and onto their O... (more)

Departing the Orange Station is Metrolink train 662, heading from Los Angeles to Oceanside. (Orange, California – November 24, 2023)

BNSF Officer Special train O-THDTHD2-01A, which originated in Thenard (near the Port of Los Angeles) and is returning after turning at Barstow is heading back to Thenard. The train is about to cr... (more)

Yesterday, the Beach ... Today, the Desert!

Rounding the iconic curve leading to Cajon Pass' Summit is BNSF Officer Special train O-THDTHD2-01A, which originated in Thenar... (more)

Today, the Beach ... Tomorrow, the Desert!

Making the 129 mile (207.6 km) trip from Los Angeles to San Diego is BNSF Officer Special O-LACSDG2-30. Running over 15 hours... (more)

A quartet of Union Pacific Railroad AC4400CWs sit on the Dolores Industrial Lead after cutting off the westbound train they brought to the Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF), in nearby ... (more)

Running over 15 hours behind schdule, BNSF Officer Train O-TOPLAC8-26A is now within 40 miles of its destination, Los Angeles. This train, consisting of ES44C4 8173 and 10 business cars, originat... (more)