Bidding Farewell to 1954 Built Budd's, From a 1956-built Budd. It was a humbling moment as I snapped this picture - standing in the dome of the 1956-built, ex-CBQ dome car "Silver Splendor... (more)

Union Pacific 1247 rebuild date March 1983 (rebuilt from SW7 #1808). Due to the transplanted front over head cooling fan housing, the SW10's are nicknamed "Hammerheads".

With its time assisting the Pacific Surfliners throughout Southern California complete, CDTX 2051 prepares to head home to Oakland the following day as it is seen prior to back down on top of the ... (more)

A morning Pacific Surfliner departs Los Angeles.

Santa Fe 3751 has been split in two (the engine and tender, that is) as the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society prepares to embark on the locomotive's second "1472" boiler inspection in loc... (more)

Main Concourse at Los Angeles Union Station - LAUS, principal railway station owned by LAMTA - Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority and operated by Amtrak and Metrolink. Built in 1939... (more)

Metro Rail train, owned and operated by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority - LAMTA, near Glendale Junction serving in Los Angeles County, with LA downtown in background.

Farewell Pacific Parlour Car. For one final moment, Pacific Parlour Car "Columbia Valley" sits quietly on track 10 at Los Angeles Union Station, having just arrived from Seattle. This woul... (more)

Lined For the Table. CDTX 2052's final hour at the Redondo Junction turntable has come to a close as the venerable 1927-built, original Santa Fe structure is lined for the Amtrak California... (more)

On their last night in Los Angeles, CDTX 2051 and 2052 are seen posed beneath the 1927-built Sears, Roebuck & Company mail order building that with its well known neon letters still burning bright... (more)

With just inches to spare. When I first got word that CDTX 2051 and 2052 were coming down from Oakland to assist on expanded Pacific Surfliner trains, I was ecstatic. Growing up in the Cent... (more)

In Wilmington, near Port of Los Angeles, EMD GP22ECO controlled by EMDX and previously a GP40, in a PHL Berth 200 yard and facility, fields of Pacific Harbor Line. At his side, a NRE 3GS21C locomo... (more)

Rolling the final mile into Los Angeles Union Station, CDTX 2051 leads Amtrak 782 past Terminal Tower as the train negotiates the many switches on its way into Track 12.

Following a round trip between Los Angeles-Goleta and back on Amtrak trains 761/782, CDTX 2051 rests at the bumper of Track 12 with three Amtrak California coaches. Brought down from Oakland to as... (more)

Finally done for the night. Amtrak crews make the final preparations before taking the train to the yard where it will await its next assignments the next day.