Rainshafts from a receding monsoon thunderstorm put a partial rainbow in the sky behind this Z train heading through Ludlow.

Yesterday (03/17/2023)'s BNSF First Watson has finished its work at the El Segundo refinery, and had lunch, and is now on its way back to Torrance, where it will do more customer switching before ... (more)

A high load on a depressed-center flat car is transported in a short Santa Fe train, led by GP303211 (ex-ATSF 1211). The two tank cars may be there as buffer cars. (La Mirada California – Augu... (more)

Snow still lingered in the San Gabriel mountains one year ago as BNSF 7195 lugs an eastbound stack train upgrade at Cajon. 3-8-22

Southbound BNSF C44-9W with a Ferromex Engine spliced in the consist, rolls through Bealville as it climbs to the Summit in Tehachapi

GE C44-9W BNSF 766 ~ Delivered September 1997. Captured in the late winter sunlight between rain storms at BNSF's Hobart Intermodal Yard near Los Angeles, CA.

Burlington Northern train 3 hurries westbound through Eola, Illinois, on a sunny December 23, 1988. Tiger-stripe EMD GP50 No. 3124 and a cabless GE B30-7AB unit power the Seattle-bound piggyback t... (more)

Rolling at train speed, 60 mph (for passenger trains) is BNSF Railway Officer Special O-LACSBD8-06A. BNSF ET44C4 7939 can handle this 10-car train easily as it heads 62 miles from Los Angeles ... (more)

It is always a treat to see a GP39-2 sill working in AT&SF Bluebonnet paint.

BNSF 3807, 7186, & NS 2719 lead a westbound stack train.

A few years ago, as GEVOs were being delivered every few months, a friend commented that soon railfans would be salivating at a solid set of Dash 9s the same way we would over a solid set of SD40-... (more)

Following the old alignment this EB train is about to reach the top of the grade. Photo by Robert Roll, from my collection.

Seen from the SP's Cutoff this EB pig train is grinding upgrade approaching Sullivan's Curve.

Good old days when work allowed some extracurricular excursions in the old stomping grounds. I haven't been back since they added more track except to fly over.

At 2618 feet, Cajon Pass' Blue Cut, is much lower than Cajon (near Sullivan's Curve) or Summit (obviously, since it sits at 3775-feet). It therefore rarely gets much snow. However, after three d... (more)