Banking to the east as it joins BNSF San Bernardino Subdivision, Metrolink 810 splits two of the three ex-Santa Fe searchlights still earning their keep here at the busy railroad interaction of At... (more)

"This here is one of our finest," said the UP Manager. In a staged scene part of the annual night photography session at the Rail Giants Train Museum in Pomona, a Union Pacific executive p... (more)

Scarlet & Grey Returns to the Coast Line. UP 1011 and a GP40-2 set to work this afternoon switching the small, central-coast yard that's main purpose these days is serving as an interchange... (more)

Passing Starlights. The daily ritual, at least when both trains are on time, takes place in front of the beautifully resorted Southern Pacific freight house here in San Luis Obispo as Amtra... (more)

The sun closes in on the horizon to bring another warm, summer day in Los Angeles to a close as AMTK 507 catches some rays adjacent to the Redondo turntable. Across the pit, an endangered F59PHi l... (more)

Taking The Long Way To Promontory. Well, the closest active rails can get to Promontory anymore: Ogden, Utah. UP 8850 leads a small, seven-car train through the iconic rocks of Chatsworth a... (more)

"Can I have my Hobart Tower well done, please?" The local transients of Los Angeles were happy to abided this order, unfortunately, as seen in blacked-interior and blown out windows of the ... (more)

With a busy morning of hustling commuters into the metropolitan hub of Los Angeles complete, a six-car Metrolink train-set highballs for CMF along the L.A. River. To the right, Metro's crossing of... (more)

The sun continues to rise on a new day in Los Angeles as Metrolink 924 works a double-set along the western bank of the city's namesake river on its way to servicing at Metrolink Central Maintenan... (more)

A pair of outbound Metrolink commuter trains, one bound for the Antelope Valley and the other for East Ventura, board passengers at Los Angeles Union Station as the iconic structure, built in 1939... (more)

Wildflower Explosion in Downtown LA. After completing a trip to Tehachapi the previous Sunday in hopes to capture some spectacular flowers covering the hillsides, which wasn't necessarily t... (more)

A venerable SD70MAC, UP 4166, brings up the rear of a West Colton-bound manifest at Ilmon as its train slowly approaches the "narrows" where it will stop to wait for the northbound ZLCLT.

There's something about a spring morning on Tehachapi that just has that "right" feeling. Such was the case as the sun crept above a row of clouds and spilled onto the length of this sou... (more)

With air rushing from the lead truck and kicking up a slight cloud of ballast dust, BNSF 8022 eases a heavy grain train downgrade and into Woodford with a small splash of orange foliage providing ... (more)

A Worm With An Identity Crises. UP 5288 leads a 13,000-ton, loaded grain train carefully down Clear Creek Ravine and past the long abandoned Tunnel 4 on the 5,900-foot long train's decent t... (more)