A 115-Car Worm Chasing It's Tail. Looking like something right off the set of your club's model train layout, BNSF 6513 along with four other GE's idlle quietly this morning on the large, f... (more)

The Train That Struck Fear Into Los Angeles. Traversing the southern end of the ex-SP coast line, an eastbound military train, heavily laden with tanks, passes the Santa Susana Depot and Mu... (more)

Santa Fe 2921, built in 1943 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, basks in the sun at the Modesto Amtrak Station following its move out of Beard Brook Park just days before. The 650-ton locomotive and... (more)

One of a Kind. With the town of Victorville in the rearview mirrors, BNSF's Southern California Division Christmas Train joins Route 66 again east of town as it prepares to make the turn to... (more)

"Holy...this is turning into quite the production." Shortly after those very words were stated by professional railroad photographer and night photography lighting expert Steve Crise, shut... (more)

UP 4014's 23-car passenger train brings traffic on Interstate-15 to an almost complete standstill as folks, likely retuning home from a trip to Las Vegas, witness the only operational "Big Boy" st... (more)

The Last Time. The last crew to make up the popular Reno Fun Train takes a moment on a fittingly, gloomy morning in Sparks, Nevada to pose for a group photo in front of the train's l... (more)

Over 8,000 tones of worn Abrams tanks are seen being slugged upgrade into Woodford on a warm afternoon on Tehachapi. Making a somewhat rare appearance on a DODX train, two mid-train DPU's can be s... (more)

Through the smoke and flames. Tip-toeing toward the MP 387.9 grade crossing, with an XH to have its train's conductor come out and flag due to power outages, Amtrak 761 crawls through Fair... (more)

Filling the sweeping curve on the approach to the 3,700-foot summit of Cajon Pass, BNSF's Southern California Christmas Train heads east for Barstow on its first crossing of the famous pass in dec... (more)

Snow In Los Angeles. Well, the closest any snow got to downtown Los Angeles that is. In this sunset scene at Union Pacific's "J Yard," the power for the YJY68R and YJY78R share the surprisi... (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)

Redondo Over - Under. As Union Pacific 7625 leads the westbound rock train through Redondo Junction and toward the Alameda Corridor, Amtrak 785 cruises above on its decent toward CP Olympia... (more)

Snaking Out of the Narrows. As the lush, green hills of Tehachapi slowly begin their turn to brown as temperatures across Southern California begin to feel more and more like summer - UP 76... (more)

CDTX 2101, a new Siemens SC-44 Charger sporting the Amtrak California paint scheme, shoves a cab car out onto the wye and becomes the first unit of its class in the state of California to operate ... (more)