The Shortest Pacific Surfliner Ever?

Sitting on one of the whiskers around the turntable at Amtrak’s Redondo Junction engine facility, located in Los Angeles, is F59PHI 458 an... (more)

”There’s Something You Don’t See Every Day, Chauncey.” “What’s That, Edgar?”

Saturday, April 15, 2017, was a bad day on the San Diego Subdivision. About halfway between Los Angeles... (more)

Redondo Diversity

Sitting on the garden tracks at Amtrak’s Redondo Junction engine facility are three engines that show the variety of power used in southern California. On the left... (more)

It’s a “Twofer”!

A double-length Amtrak Pacific Surfliner (train #573), consisting of a six car train set, an F59PHI (#455), six more cars, and another F59PHI (#453). Due to ... (more)

Colorado-Bound

Four-day-old Siemens SC-44 diesel-electric passenger locomotives WDTX 1402 and 1403 were found in Amtrak’s Redondo Junction engine facility in downtown Los Angeles on ... (more)

”With a Little Help from my Friends”

To move Amtrak F59PHI 456 off the whiskers and back into the shop, the Redondo Junction engine facility’s employees fired up their Rail King SS42... (more)

”Right ‘Round Like a Record, Baby”

Amtrak’s Redondo Junction engine facility is the former Santa Fe Redondo Junction roundhouse. While the roundhouse is gone, the turntable is still... (more)

Green and Yellow Foliage and Diesels (Part Two)

A BNSF baretable train continues its eastbound trip as it departs the railroad’s Mormon Yard in Stockton, California, on March 12, 200... (more)

Green and Yellow Foliage and Diesels

On a pleasant August afternoon, a Union Pacific automobile train heads west behind Chicago & North Western GP50 5074, UP SD40 3052 and C&NW SD40-... (more)

A Pair of Geeps in Homewood

Illinois Central GP40 3125 is ex-ICG 3067, originally IC 3067. (Woodcrest Yard, Homewood, Illinois - September 20, 1997)

In Service for Eighty-Two Years

Amtrak’s train #5, the westbound San Francisco Zephyr, has made its afternoon arrival at the old Southern Pacific 16th Street Station in Oaklan... (more)

Open During Construction

Metrolink, southern California’s commuter rail operation, began operating on October 26, 1992. It didn’t take long for this operation to expand, and on Marc... (more)

Late Night at the Office

The power for Pan Am Railways train BF-1 (MEC GP40-2(W) 511, MEC GP40-2L 504 and MEC GP40-2L 506.) sat in White River Junction, Vermont, for several days fol... (more)

Six Trains per Day Between Los Angeles and San Diego

Amtrak San Diegan #770 makes its stop in Fullerton, California, on a beautiful April day in 1974. a pair of SDP40Fs (522 ... (more)

First Generation Quartet

A westbound Burlington Northern freight passes through Arapahoe, Nebraska, on August 5, 1985. SD9 6167 (the former Chicago Burlington & Quincy 365) leads a ... (more)