Intermodal, 1970s Style!

A westbound Southern Pacific intermodal train, full of those "long" 40' containers (two per 89' flat!) has just crossed the Santa Fe's Third District. T... (more)

An eight-car Bay Area Rapid Transit train stops at the El Cerrito Plaza Station, and will shortly depart for Richmond. BART C1 car 347 leads this train, The C1s were built by Alstom from 1987-19... (more)

Southern Pacific MP15DC 2690 was rebuilt by National Railway Equipment into a "Truck Engine Switcher" (TES), or GS14B. A pair of Cummins 700hp truck engines are under the hoods of this ... (more)

Holding Track 2 (of three mainlines) as it awaits an opening at Los Angeles' Hobart Yard, and also awaiting a fresh crew as permission to proceed its final 16 miles, is BNSF Guaranteed Service Int... (more)

Union Pacific SD70ACe 8875 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division June 2014, just two months prior to this photograph. (Compton, California – August 15, 2014)

Navigating the S-curves at Frost, ironically located in the Mojave Desert, is BNSF Guaranteed Service Intermodal train Q-ALTSBD6-19, ferrying hundreds of shipping containers from Alliance, Texas, ... (more)

While checking out the location of the Pacific Harbor Line's former enginehouse at their now-gone Pier A Yard, a pair of NRE 3GS21B locomotives, PHL 30 and 31, were found crossing Alameda Street w... (more)

Late trains keep getting later…Amtrak 3, the Southwest Chief, making its way west, was only 34 minutes behind schedule when it departed Gallup NM the day before, but by the time it... (more)

BNSF Railway train C-SCMCEC1-43, hauling coal from Montana's Spring Creek Mine to Centralia, Washington, emerges from the 416-foot Blum Tunnel on BNSF's Fallbridge Sub on a crisp autumn day. BNSF... (more)

As westbound Amtrak Wolverine 353 (Pontiac to Chicago) makes its stop at the Hammond-Whiting Station, another Wolverine, train 352 (Chicago to Pontiac, behind IDTX SC-44 "Charger" 46... (more)

A unit train full of sand, which originated in Eola, Illinois, holds the BNSF Railway's Akron Sub's mainline at East Wiggins. BNSF Dash 9-44CWs 963 and 4060 are up front, and ES44C4 7982 and ES44... (more)

Running five-hours-late, Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, led by P42DC 160 (wearing the carrier's "Pepsi Can" scheme in honor of Amtrak's 50th Anniversary in 2021), passes... (more)

Union Pacific's Anaheim Hauler power spends the night in UP’s West Anaheim Yard. UP SD70M 4803 and ES44AC 5383 have brought a visitor from the east this day, in the form of CSX Transportation A... (more)

Back From the Dead … Again! I was out to catch Amtrak’s "Pepsi Can" engine on a very late Amtrak train 3, but even more rare was the next train: Metrolink 91/Perris V... (more)

Running a little behind schedule – 12 hours 45 minutes behind, in fact – is Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief heading from Chicago to Los Angeles. Amtrak 50th Annive... (more)