Pacific Harbor Line train YPSW24-05, the Reyes Switcher, backs down the PHL’s Wilmington Lead in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles, heading another 7 miles north in order to swit... (more)

There is not much time left for 1974 as a westbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight heads west through Basta, two miles west of the train station in Fullerton. ATSF F45 5907 (the forme... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific train descends Cajon Pass behind UP C30-7 2449, SD40-2 3377 and another SD40-2 on its way to Los Angeles. This piggyback train is traveling on the original 1885-built li... (more)

As Pacific Harbor Line train YPSW24-05 rolled down the Union Pacific's UP Reyes Spur, the crew had to stop and adjust, to put it mildly, a new addition to an awning added to a camper sitting by th... (more)

Sitting in the deadline in Union Pacific's Yermo Yard is UP DDA40X 6920. This engine was built by EMD in November 1969, one hundred years after the driving of the Golden Spike, and being construc... (more)

An eastbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight slows for a crew change as it nears the western end of the railway’s First District, which extends from San Bernardino to Barstow. This t... (more)

The grade crossing at Rosecrans and Marquardt in Santa Fe Springs sees an estimated 135 trains (a mix of BNSF freights and Amtrak and Metrolink passenger trains) and 45,000 highway vehicles per da... (more)

BNSF Railway train L-CAL0611-12 (the Barstow to Boron and back local) backs into the US Borax plant in Boron CA. Power for today's train is BNSF GP39-2R 2823 (originally CB&Q GP30 940) and 1575 an... (more)

BNSF Railway Bi-Level Coach/Lounge 40, the "Fox River," seen in BNSF Officer Special O-LACSDG9-11 (Los Angeles to San Diego) was built by Pullman-Standard in 1955 as Southern Pacific gal... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe GP 730 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in May 1956, with a high short-hood and an attractive black and silver “Zebra Stripe” paint scheme. It wa... (more)

A trio of Santa Maria Valley Railroad locomotives have cut off the train the brought from Santa Maria and are positioning themselves to pick up cars from the Union Sugar Beet plant in Betteravia. ... (more)

Baldwin-Palooza!

A trio of Baldwin diesels sit adjacent to the California Western Railroad’s enginehouse. CWR RS-12 56 (ex-McCloud River 33) is on the far end, coupled ... (more)

Two Heritage, No Waiting!

Earlier this month, Amtrak 3 arrived behind P42DC 184 (on the 9th) and then 130 (on the 10th), and today (the 28th) they both arrived again, but now on ... (more)

Canadian Pacific GP38-2 4509 (ex-Milwaukee Road 359, and still in Soo Line paint) and CP/SOO caboose 17 are stationed in front of the depot, awaiting their call to duty switching local industries ... (more)

A former Soo Line business car, built in 1921, brings up the markers (in this case, old school marker lights) as Amtrak San Diegan 578 rushes through the city of Orange on its way from Los ... (more)