A Chinese National Railway passenger train heads west through Yuexiu, Baiyun, Guangzhou, with an SS8 electric locomotive, number 0193. The SS8s were built by CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Works... (more)

A pair of GATX MP15DCs sit in Santa Fe's Fallbrook Junction Yard. These two locomotives were built in December 1974 as Reading Company 2771 and 2772, which became Conrail 9621 and 9622 in that 19... (more)

Approaching the 6 Line’s Elder Avenue station in the Bronx is a southbound Pelham Bay Park Express, comprised of R62A cars (with NYCT 1676 leading). This train originated at Pelham Bay Park and... (more)

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train, with a pair of Santa Fe GP7u locomotives (ATSF 2183 and 2124), brings six office cars of varying heritage through Santa Fe Junction and across the state line ... (more)

Eight days after a 10 hour 19 minute late Amtrak 3, another Amtrak 3 heads west, but is only 6 hours and 1 minute behind schedule on this day. It was, of course, for the same reason: One of the ... (more)

Cajon, the site of the old Santa Fe station in the heart of Cajon Pass, sits at the 3,100 foot (945 meters) elevation, and the snow is not usually very deep here. But on occasion, it can get pret... (more)

Union Pacific 4-8-4 844 leads a short passenger train around Sullivan's Curve in southern California's Cajon Pass under skies that were threatening rain. The cold temperatures, however, provided ... (more)

Metrolink San Bernardino Line train 353 hustles past the BNSF power stationed at Kaiser. Train 353 is heading from San Bernardino to Los Angeles, with F59PH 882 up front, and MP36PH-3C 900 on the... (more)

BNSF train D-BARLAC3-30I, a movement of light engines (BNSF ES44DC 7889, ES44C4 6941, Dash 9-44CW 5500, ES44AC 6167, ES44C4 6733 and ES44C4 6949) traveling from Barstow to Los Angeles, makes a bri... (more)

Heading into the sunset is Metrolink 91/Perris Valley Line train 709, making its way west. Metrolink F125 931 is shoving on the rear as the train heads from Perris-South to Los Angeles. (Fullert... (more)

Not many EMC/EMD FT diesels, which pretty much were the locomotive that killed steam, were preserved – just two FTA units and three FTBs, although these Bs had been converted to Steam Heater Car... (more)

Interesting Up Front … And on the Rear!

Accelerating out of Fullerton as it heads to Los Angeles from Chicago, is Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief. This s... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe FP45 5992 (ex-5942, nee-102), teamed with FP45s 5991 and 5998, is on the point of a 14-car Analysts' Special climbing Cajon Pass as the train heads from San Diego to Bak... (more)

As BNSF Railway ethanol unit train U-HERWAT7-22A makes its way to Watson, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, from Hereford, Texas, it meets BNSF train B-LACLAC6-26D (Los Angeles to Full... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train H-KCRI1-23 rolls into Barstow, where the crew that has handled this train across the Needles Sub, having boarded in Needles, will get off to allow a fres... (more)