A scene that will soon fade into the pages of history unfolds on this warm, Independence Day as a venerable Metrolink F59 prepares to shove its train to the commuter railroad's Central Maintenance... (more)

Basking in the golden hour light at Redondo Junction, Amtrak's Phase IV 40th Anniversary painted P42DC, AMTK 184, enjoys a break between duties as it waits for its turn to receive some attention f... (more)

Making the most of the late afternoon light, Union Pacific's LOF67 (known by many as the Guadalupe Hauler) leaves behind El Capitan State Beach as it heads north for its namesake town.

Making track speed over the Santa Clarita River (actually flowering on this afternoon thanks to the massive amount of storms this winter), UP 1469 leads a single load of plastic pellets as it head... (more)

More than half way through its trip down the Central Valley, CDTX 2051 slows its four car set making up Amtrak 716 this evening as it approaches the Corcoran depot for its scheduled station stop. ... (more)

United States Air Force (USAF) No. 1601 prepares to begin some switching alongside Ventura County Railway No. 2, which is being serviced for the last time before going down for its upcoming 1472 i... (more)

With the relatively slow speeds of Tehachapi behind it, Amtrak 14, the San Joaquin Starlight, highballs the original Southern Pacific depot in Bakersfield for a race up the heart of the Central Va... (more)

On a warm Independence Day evening, the Fillmore & Western Railway's nine-car Firecracker Train (making this the largest July 4th train the railway has operated to date) heads west toward the High... (more)

Following it's 2,265 mile trip from Chicago, Illinois, AMTK 156 eases Amtrak train No. 3's trainset through the washrack as it recieves a final dousing of water prior to passing through the blower... (more)

An endangered F59PH leads Metrolink 667 toward San Clemente as it skirts the Pacific Ocean in the afternoon light.

East meets west as an eastbound stack train thunders toward the western entrance of Crozier Canyon after meeting a westbound counterpart that is seen dropping downgrade out of the canyon bound for... (more)

Making its way across the dry Santa Clarita riverbed, FWRY 3051 leads the 10AM Christmas Tree Train back toward Fillmore as a DC-10 firefighting aircraft banks to the east and prepares to make a r... (more)

Squint your eyes and picture a bloody nose and Southern Pacific gallery cars... While it no longer adorns the proud Southern Pacific bloody-nose paint scheme, iconic light package or a stea... (more)

On a spectacularly clear day in Grover Beach, with the Pismo dunes visible stretching for miles in the background, Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight prepares to enter Price Canyon with a Dash-8 ... (more)

The $25 Photo. While making the drive from Southern California to Albuquerque in a single day, I got lunch in Winslow with a friend who mentioned there was a CSX leader on the point of a we... (more)