Having just rolled to a stop next to the original ATSF depot here at Ash Fork, BNSF 4244 waits to get back on the move as it waits for an east/southbound intermodal to clear the switch east of tow... (more)

Splitting the searchlight signals still guarding the southern end of the Santa Margarita siding, Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight approaches the summit of Cuesta Pass prior to the lengthy decen... (more)

First light spills onto the floor of the fertile, Central Valley of California as an appropriately named Amtrak San Joaquin races south across the Merced River over the original ATSF span h... (more)

With the 4PM train in tow, McCloud River Railroad No. 25 skirts the water on its departure from Garibaldi.

With a pair of "robbers" now onboard following their hold-up of the Grand Canyon Railway's Train No. 3 at Quivero, GCRY 29 and one of the railway's F40's work hard to get their heavy tra... (more)

Snaking through the southern end of Cliff, UP 6524 brings up the rear of a northbound manifest as it passes a waiting BNSF intermodal train on one side and the remains of a recent derailment on th... (more)

BNSF 5193 and the head-end power on this northbound grain train begin their final decent down toward Walong and Tunnel 9 and the train's three mid-train DPU's, including a Canadian visitor, still ... (more)

Jointed, wet rails lay ahead for the 778,730 pound SP 4449 as the cylinder cocks close and the iconic, 80-year-old engine gets another edition of the Holiday Express underway on the 1.5% grade out... (more)

The sun has just begun to peak over the local mountains as Metrolink 106, the last inbound train to Los Angeles from Ventura for the morning, makes like a bandit out of Oxnard for its next stop of... (more)

Bringing back memories of classic, streamlined passenger trains running along the coast - UP 7437 leads a 7 car business car special past the Santa Susana depot as it heads for it's only station s... (more)

Crossing the Old Santiam Highway grade crossing, Santa Maria Valley Railroad 205 leads an appropriately named Santiam Excursion Train south toward Sweet Home where it will run around its tr... (more)

Some 14 years after receiving its Olympic paint scheme, UP 2001 leads an El Paso, Texas bound autorack train out of San Luis Obispo and toward the coast line.

A timeless scene unfolds at the depot in Ely as fireman Con Trumball looks out from the cab of Nevada Northern No. 40 as the 1910-built product of Baldwin backs down onto No. 93 in preparation for... (more)

Turning into the morning light, AMTK 6906 leads this morning's edition of Amtrak 774 out of Oxnard south toward its next station stop of Camarillo.

Posing beneath the ex-Santa Fe Railway locomotive sanding tower that still holds its place at Redondo Junction, Santa Fe 3751 eases around the sharp curve on the coupling track as it heads for Nor... (more)