UP 1111's First Coast Trip. Having just joined the Pacific Ocean for the first time, UP 1111, adorned in a special paint scheme honoring the employees of the railroad, belches smoke as the ... (more)

Union Pacific Oxnard Local brings its pulls back towards Oxnard, around the S-curve in Saticoy..

Union Pacific Oxnard Local runs long-hood forward, pulling a single car for Spears Manufacturing along the one-time SP mainline between Los Angeles and San Francisco, now a stub end branch that se... (more)

Carrying on the Southern Pacific legacy and None the worse for wear the old War Horse Southern Pacific GP60 no. 1053 returns from swapping cars in Santa Paula Ca. The Oxnard local rolls along Bri... (more)

With the lush, green hillsides temporarily covered in a large outpouring of blooming wildflowers, Union Pacific's LOF67 local hugs the Pacific Ocean as it leaves Emma Wood State Beach behind and a... (more)

Pounding the switch at the southern end of Ventura, Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight, carrying a trio of private cars on the rear today, begins to slow as it prepares to meet a late running Amt... (more)

Union Pacific Track Inspection Car EC-4 makes a stop at Seacliff before resuming it's northbound trek pulled by UP ES44AC No.5311.

Snow covers the high peaks of the mountains that flank Cajon Pass in Southern California. A Union Pacific Auto Rack climbing towards the Summit on the Union Pacific Palmdale Cutoff dramatizes the... (more)

The only morning southbound Pacific Surfliner running between Santa Barbara Ca. and Los Angeles due to the new schedule cuts is No. 768. Leaving Santa Barbara at 6:49 am, it rolls through the Fari... (more)

Running early due to the lack of traffic on the Santa Barbara Subdivision, the southbound Guadalupe Local with Union Pacific no. 8186 leading, highballs into Ventura Ca.

A little rough around the edges, Amtrak Phase 2 P42DC Heritage Unit leads no. 14, the northbound Coast Starlight through the Signals at Padre Juan Canyon Road.

After dropping off a car in Ventura Ca. the Oxnard Local with SP GP60 and UP no. 654 head southbound back to Oxnard Ca.

A break in the clouds shines a light on the Gaudalupe Local one of the few trains left on the Santa Barbara Sub. Only 4 Amtrak Surfliners are still running and the Starlights are running reduced c... (more)

Southbound Union Pacific no.7402 leads the Cans, which have since been discontinued, along a stretch of the Coast Route that is under constant assault from wave action. Old sea water intake pipes ... (more)

Eastbound back to Oxnard, crossing over Sanjon Road, Southern Pacific GP60 no. 1053 and Union Pacific GP38-2 no. 654 makes for a for a nice looking Oxnard Local. Not very often do we see the local... (more)