Union Pacific SD40-2 3786 leads another SD40-2 and a U30C – a typical locomotive lash-up in the 1980s – on a westbound freight heading for Los Angeles. (Hesperia, California – December 6, 19... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-NYCLAC1-01A descends a slight grade as it passes from Siberia to Klondike on the railway's Needles Sub, which crosses the Mojave Desert. The old Southern Pacific surveyors of... (more)

Southern Pacific GP40-2 7677, built by EMD in March 1980, was photographed on a dark day in American history – September 11. No, not that really dark day in US history, but the one that was a d... (more)

Still sitting on one of Taylor Yard’s turntable whisker tracks some two years after being retried following a wreck in Willowbrook (Compton CA) in mid-1983, Southern Pacific GP9E 3346 (ex-SP GP9... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe train M-BARSDG1-06 (Merchandise, Barstow CA to San Diego CA) descends Cajon Pass on November 6, 2001. Six years after the Santa Fe Railway was merged out of existence... (more)

Los Angeles' iconic city hall provides the backdrop as Amtrak train 3, The Super Chief, has arrived on Los Angeles Union Station's Track 12 with a trio of new SDP40F diesels for power: AMT... (more)

A Southern Pacific train of empty beet racks passes through Modesto's "South Ninth" neighborhood on its way from the Spreckels Sugar refinery in Manteca back to Fresno, where the train's cars will... (more)

Bringing up the rear of an eastbound Southern Pacific freight departing West Colton Yard is SP bay-window caboose 4621. Built by Pacific Car & Foundry in 1978, this was one of fifty C-50-7 class ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 584 accelerates out of the Oceanside Transportation Center and the train departs for San Diego on its trip from Los Angeles. CDTX SC-44 2121 leads this six-car tra... (more)

Sitting just outside the Mid America Car shop complex is freshly overhauled and painted BNSF Railway GP60 197 (ex-BNSF 8739; née-ATSF 4039), built by EMD in August 1989. (Kansas City, Missouri â... (more)

A BNSF Railway light engine movement traverses the shoofly around the construction of the Highland Avenue overpass, which will eliminate yet another grade crossing – the last one in an eight-mil... (more)

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

A Kansas City Terminal train, having just crossed the Kansas River and into Kansas from Missouri on the Highline Bridge, heads to the railroad’s Mill Street Yard behind WAMX SD60M 6033 (wearing ... (more)

Amtrak train 14, the northbound ("westbound" on the Southern Pacific’s Los Angeles Division) makes it stop in San Luis Obispo as it makes its way from Los Angeles to Seattle. A pair of recently... (more)

CP Rail DS-4-4-1000 7072 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Canadian Pacific in October 1948. It was found working in the yards in Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 19, 197... (more)