Recently arrived Amtrak ALC-42 diesels 320 and 322 are getting checked out and set up for service at the carrier's Wilmington Maintenance Facility. These two locomotives, constructed by Siemens A... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad's latest locomotive paint scheme has, in my opinion (and I know you all care about my opinion!), one major flaw: The railroad has decided to eliminate the elegant &q... (more)

Department of Transportation U30C 001 was built by General Electric in June 1971. At one time, this locomotive wore a red and white scheme, and it spent years assigned to the United States’ Dep... (more)

Union Pacific GP40-2 1469, built as Cotton Belt 7637, sits by itself in UP’s West Anaheim Yard on March 17, 2020. Perhaps this engine was self-isolating to avoid COVID-19. (Anaheim, California... (more)

Chicago & North Western GP7 4148 (ex-RI 4473, nee-DRGW 5101) | Casper Wyoming | October 1988

As Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 578 departs Fullerton, California, on Track 3, the conductor seems transfixed by something off to the train’s right side. Meanwhile, some BNSF employees are i... (more)

Los Angeles’ version of Chicago’s Sears Tower?

Rising in the background is a Los Angeles landmark since 1926 - the Sears, Roebuck & Company building in the city’s Boyle H... (more)

On the last day of 2019, Metrolink train 687 departs the station in Orange, California, and navigates through CP Maple (where the Olive Sub splits from the Orange Sub) as it heads from Laguna Nigu... (more)

Of the 297 PA and PB locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company, only five are still extant. Four are former Santa Fe locomotives, which were purchased and later rebuilt by the Delaware... (more)

Ticked into the back of Professional Locomotive Services facility in East Chicago, Indiana, were a pair of locomotives, including the former Lake Michigan Indiana Railroad GP11 8735. This locomot... (more)

LLPX SD38-2 2801 is on lease to the Pacific Harbor Line in the Los Angeles / Long Beach harbor area. This engine is ex-GATX 1237, nee-RSMX 1237. (PHL's Pier B Yard, Long Beach CA - August 4, 2006... (more)

The fiberglass nose on Amtrak P42DC 147 is showing a lot of wear as train 565, a Pacific Surfliner heading from San Diego to Los Angeles, departs Fullerton, California, on April 9, 2019.

Metrolink train 633, seen passing through Orange, California, is a shuttle between Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo and Fullerton. However, on this day (February 19, 2019), this train will continue be... (more)

Metro-North train 1346 is a mere four miles out of Grand Central Terminal, but unwary commuters need to be wary, as it is showing GCT in its destination boards. Fortunately, New York City commute... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 1767, weekend service from San Diego to Goleta; begins to accelerate out of the station in Fullerton, California, on December 16, 2018. Nearly-new Siemens SC-44 &q... (more)