Late evening finds a rare view of WEMX 1502 outside the plant at Famoso.

After Amtrak's "Coast Starlight" stuck a water truck in Moorpark CA on June 28, Amtrak needed to ferry some replacement Superliners to Los Angeles. On July 3 Amtrak train 3, the "Southwest Chief,... (more)

Eastbound Union Pacific grain train passes through Modesto.

A BNSF manifest freight grinds east of Denair Ca.

C44-9W 722 and SD70Mac 9661 bring heritage to Riverbank Yard.

Eastbound priority intermodal passes through Ballico Ca.

Posting This in July ... Because It's Hot Now

Coming off Cajon Pass' famed Sullivan's Curve and rounding the last curve into the Cajon station (the physical building of wh... (more)

It may be early January, but there is not a lot of snow on the San Gabriel Mountains as BNSF train M-WATBAR1-06, a merchandise train ("Look, Ma! No double-stacks!") that originated in W... (more)

Factory Fresh!

As the sun appears over the San Bernardino Mountains, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway train Q-NYLA (Quality Network [TOFC/COFC]; East Coast [CR Connection in Ch... (more)

BNSF Railway Guaranteed Service Intermodal train Q-ATGLAC6-23A, heading from Atlanta, Georgia, to Los Angeles, isn’t very long this day, warranting only two diesels. But with a Norfolk Southern... (more)

Rolling east on Southern Pacific’s West Colton Division, Cotton Belt GP35 6505 (ex-SSW 765) and SP GP9R 3880 (ex-SP GP9 3720, née-SP GP9 5884) meet a westbound, led by SP SD45T-2 9216, holding ... (more)

A Santa Fe freight heads east behind a C30-7, F45, C30-7, SD40-2, SD40-2 consist … so typical of the railway’s power consists in the late 80s. (Corona, California – January 1988)

UP SD70Ms 4526 and 4527 lead an Officer Special, and the train is seen at the west end of UP’s East Yard (this end often referred to as "Spence Street"). Union Pacific can still assem... (more)

On a cool, crisp morning at Boca, eastbound Union Pacific AC 4400 CW no. 6178 rolls it's manifest down to Reno Nevada and into the rising Sun

A westbound manifest freight waits for an eastbound train to pass as a crop duster flies overhead at Modesto Ca.