The landscaping makes the Amtrak Fullerton Platform appear to be in a lush, tropical locale, as SB Surfliner #768 prepares to depart. The train is on the southmost track out of 3, and will soon d... (more)

Cabcar 6953 brings up the rear of 5-car northbound Pacific Surfliner #567, passing Commerce on BNSF's San Bernardino Sub.

Although not going anywhere anytime soon, SP Cab-Forward 4294 is looking sharp inside the California State Railroad Museum.

An eastbound Amtrak Capitol bound for Sacramento slows for a stop at Martinez in the late morning, with Cabcar 8302 leading.

A UP local rushes through the Martinez Amtrak Station eastbound on the former SP Cal-P line.

A late running Coast Starlight #14 arrives in Dunsmuir at 8am, about 3 hours behind schedule.

UP 5748 is one of two DPU's on the rear of a southbound manifest, stopped at Sandcut at the north end of the Tehachapi pass.

San Joaquin #704 prepares to push south out of the Sacramento depot. P42 112 is a visitor to this assignment, and is normally assigned to the Coast Starlight pool.

Amtrak Capitol #545 prepares to depart Sacramento westbound.

A late running Coast Starlight #14 passes through a very lonely stretch on the California Coast route, in San Ardo about 30 miles north of Paso Robles.

UP 4405 leads a southbound Z-train out of the siding at Goshen, between Tulare and Fresno on UP's Fresno Sub.

UP 2498 is the sole power for a northbound manifest in Tulare, running up the flat San Joaquin Valley towards Fresno.

Amtrak 141 (with another P42DC and P32BWH) heads up the northbound Coast Starlight #14 just north of Dunsmuir, CA at North Azalea.

Dirty UP 5761 leads two clean SD70M's with a southbound manifest out of Mott siding on the former SP Shasta Route. That's Mt. Shasta in the background.

UP 5699 leads a southbound manifest into Tunnel 2, near the west switch of the long Bealville siding in the Tehachapi pass.