Steam Under Wire. On Sunday, September 19, 2021, Ventura County 2 (2-6-2, Baldwin, 1922) crosses Broadway, one of several marked and controlled crossings on the Southern California Railway ... (more)

Sierra Northern RP20GE 2638 bound for company headquarters in Oakdale.

After climbing Goffs Hill for the last hour and a half, this heavy Galesburg, IL to Barstow, CA manifest crest the top of the 1.5% grade as it begins to pick up speed on the last leg of journey fr... (more)

One of the many intermodal trains that traverse the Mojave Desert grinds up the 1% grade of Goffs Hill at Essex on BNSF's Needles Subdivision.

Sierra Northern's Riverbank Industrial Park local returning to Oakdale Yard.

SP 4-10-2 number 5018 is seen at Los Angeles California on August 1st 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Western Pacific 2-8-8-2 number 256 leads seventy one cars eastbound at Oroville California in 1935. Otto's speed estimate for this train was 30 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A pair of Norfolk Southern units appear leading a UP manifest out of Tunnel 1, heading downgrade on Tehachapi Pass towards Caliente and Bakersfield.

UP 6960 leads a westbound Z at El Casco.

With helper locomotives UP 5525 & 5521 pushing at the rear, Union Pacific 2-10-2 5526 is seen leading a fifty six car eastbound freight near Pine Lodge California in 1933. Otto Conrad Perry photo,... (more)

Union Pacific 3132 idles in the Bakersfield yard the day after Thanksgiving. It appears this engine could use a trip to the paint booth.

Amtrak Engine 453 pulls into the San Clemente Pier station in San Clemente, CA. One sun bather on the beach enjoys a rather quiet day on this part of the beach.

An eastbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight passes over itself as it rounds the Tehachapi Loop (called Walong in the Southern Pacific timetable, on whose trackage the ATSF has trackage... (more)

Descending from Tehachapi (at an elevation of 3,970 feet [1,210 m]) down to Bakersfield (at 404 ft [123 m] of elevation) is BNSF Railway train U-PADHLG1-01, a unit train of DODX flats carrying M1 ... (more)

Grinding upgrade as it climbs over the Tehachapi Mountains is BNSF train Z-NBYWSP1-10U. heading from North Bay, California, near Richmond in the Bay Area, to Willow Springs, fourteen miles west of... (more)