The morning loaded train begins its journey back to Plaster City with the hills above Fish Creek behind it.

Working in its fifth year since it was built by EMD, an SD70M leads a westbound manifest train on the Shasta Route.

Harbor Line. Sitting in Wilmington near San Pedro, California on the afternoon of March 30, 2012, Pacific Harbor Line/PHL 60 (MP20C-3PR, MPI/Progress Rail, 2007) awaits the next call to ser... (more)

A somewhat rare daylight move of a San Diego-bound freight, BNSF H-BARSDG1-25A, occurred when the train transitioned off Metrolink’s Olive Sub and onto Metrolink’s Orange Sub at 11:00 am, as A... (more)

Union Pacific Railway's shuttle that hauls rock from a quarry in Cabazon to a facility in Gardena (south of downtown Los Angeles), symboled R WCWCC 18 (because it technically originates and termin... (more)

Heading east as it passes under Beaumont Avenue is a Union Pacific local, with a single SD70ACe (UP 8867) and about a dozen cars, most of which are lumber cars for the various lumber yards in town... (more)

As the British Columbia display train nears its destination, Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, BC 4-6-4 2860 has not gotten onto Union Pacific's Los Angeles Sub, on which Southern Pacific has ... (more)

Climbing upgrade toward to cross the Tehachapi Mountains, the grade is about to get a bit steeper in a mile or two. British Columbia "Royal Hudson" 2860 (ex-Canadian Pacific 2860) is on... (more)

UP 5948 leads a 6 unit eastbound Z near Hinda in the early morning.

San Diego Meetup. A snapshot of a meet of contemporary transit options is captured just south of West Broadway in San Diego, California on March 29, 2012 as Metropolitan Transit System 1005... (more)

Usually there is no way to beat the USG train from Plaster City to Ocotillo Wells (at least that's my experience). I suppose you might do it with a dune buggy of some sort, running along the ROW t... (more)

San Joaquin passengers board Siemens Venture coaches at Denair Ca.

The morning mine train is getting ready to depart from Plaster City as DL535E pulls up to make a hook with the empty cars. Had to get a shot with a little bit of Alco (or MLW) smoke.

Southbound San Joaquin under cloudy skies with a hint of Sunshine at Empire Ca.

M&ET 2003 picks up a string of cars bound for Modesto.