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Experience the sights and sound of Lance Mindheim’s Los Angeles Junction Ry. layout as the local spots a reefer at Federal Cold Storage. The video was filmed with an iPhone 6sPlus. See more of this layout in Great Model Railroads 2019. […]
Experience the sights and sound of Lance Mindheim’s Los Angeles Junction Ry. layout as the local spots a reefer at Federal Cold Storage. The video was filmed with an iPhone 6sPlus. See more of this layout in Great Model Railroads 2019. […]
This map of coastal Santa Cruz County shows a potential commuter rail line in red. Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission WATSONVILLE, Calif. — The agency examining a transit plan, including commuter rail, for Santa Cruz County has deferred its decision until January. At a Nov. 15 meeting, the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission […]
Amtrak’s Desert Wind makes a station stop in Las Vegas, Nev., on May 18, 1993. Station services were at the Plaza Hotel (advertising the $1 drinks in the background), which would also be the site for the Las Vegas station for the proposed X Train. David Warner A Denton A Train commuter trainset passes the […]
The California State Railroad Museum will host a number of events in 2019 to mark the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. CSRM SACRAMENTO – In 2019, the California State Railroad Museum & Foundation are proud to present a series of exciting events, activities and exhibits to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the completion of […]
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Amtrak will close its Southern California reservation call center, eliminating 550 jobs, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported. The closure was announced in a Wednesday email to employees. Operations will end on Jan. 18, with sale of the building to follow. The message to employees said operations would be consolidated with those at Amtrak’s […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s bullet train dodged its second fatal projectile Tuesday in less than a week when voters overwhelmingly elected Democrat Gavin Newsom as high-speed rail champion Jerry Brown’s successor as governor. With 53 percent of precincts reporting early Wednesday, Newsom held a 58 percent to 42 percent lead over Republican candidate John Cox, […]
BARSTOW, Calif. — The City of Barstow has announced that BNSF Railway will expand its Barstow yard, adding an intermodal facility. The Victor Valley News reports that the announcement came at an Oct. 31 meeting of the Barstow Area Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Committee. The newspaper reports that grading work for the project has […]
Restored Santa Fe motorcar M.177 is on display at Southern California’s Travel Town Museum. David Lustig LOS ANGELES – Looking like its laying over between runs on one of its regular routes in Texas and Oklahoma in the 1940s and 50s, Santa Fe motorcar M.177 is now on its last lap to being fully restored […]
Southern Pacific’s San Francisco–Los Angeles Daylight heads south beside the shimmering Pacific Ocean in the early 1940s. Classic Trains coll. […]
Shay No. 1, seen in July 2016, will co-star with Shay No. 15 at the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad’s photo day Oct. 28. Trains: Jim Wrinn FISH CAMP, Calif. – A tourist railroad that has not operated a special for photographers has set Oct. 28 as the day for an event featuring its two […]
Santa Fe Railway No. 3895, a 2-10-2 Santa Fe type named for the road that originated the wheel arrangement, hauls a freight east up California’s Cajon Pass in 1949. Donald Sims photo […]
