Blasting out of Tunnel 28 as it begins its accent up Santa Susana Pass, SCAX 857 has Metrolink 117 well in hand as leads its train full of commuters heading home from downtown Los Angeles closer t... (more)

The first weekend train from Oceanside tears through Commerce on its way into Los Angeles.

The Chatsworth turn arrives at Van Nuys behind a rebuilt F59PH that has yet to (and may never) receive the full Metrolink decal treatment.

An inbound from Moorpark shoves out of Van Nuys with a "California" style F59PHI supplying the power.

SCAX 858 leading Metrolink 662 to Oceanside approaching Norwalk / Santa Fe Springs Station

On a hazy LA morning, BNSF hire-in 5620 arrives into Burbank Airport station with another train load of commuters.

Metrolink's F59s are nearing the end of their life on the railroad as new F125s are starting to arrive. Here we see one of the original units that Metrolink began with passing through downtown Bur... (more)

A Ventura Sub train pulls out of Burbank after making its downtown stop with the "skyline" of Burbank in the background.

Last Light

An eastbound BNSF Railway intermodal train (the Z-LACWSP6-30L; Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal; Los Angeles CA to Willow Springs IL) holds the "Middle Main" in Fullerton, Cali... (more)

The afternoon Inland Empire train passes through San Clemente on its way to Riverside and San Bernardino. This commuter train is rather unique in that it runs from suburb to suburb without hitting... (more)

As Metrolink F59PH 854 accelerates out of Palmdale, ready to make a run up Vincent Grade, the searchlights at Palmdale Junction on Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision observe in silence. Their days... (more)

Metrolink Beach Bum

Metrolink train 860, heading from Oceanside to San Bernardino, crawls along Califia Beach in San Clemente, California, on August 21, 2016. I am told that northbo... (more)

An eastbound Metrolink 'extra' slowly pulls out of the siding at CP Ravenna within the confines of Soledad Canyon. Originally completed in 1876 by the Southern Pacific Railroad as the final link i... (more)

Bound for Lancaster in the high desert, a Metrolink commuter train climbs through Soledad Canyon between Lang and the former location of Russ siding on the ex-SP Saugus Line, now known as Metrolin... (more)