As with many railroads recently, BNSF Railway often combines two trains into one. This is an example of that, as BNSF ES44DC 7531, BNSF ES44C4 7031, CSXT ES44AC 3206 and BNSF ES44C4 7924 are lead... (more)

With a 5 mph speed limit on this section of Union Pacific’s Santa Ana Industrial Lead, one would think the chase would be fairly easy. But while traffic on parallel Grand Avenue wasn’t bad, I... (more)

I had second (and third) thoughts about photographing BNSF Officer Special O-THCBAR9-01A at the big curve leading to Cajon Pass' Summit, as it has been done to death (perhaps especially by me), bu... (more)

Amtrak train 48, the eastbound Lake Shore Limited, arrived at the Albany-Rensselaer Station and got split in two, with train 48 continuing to New York City and this section, now train 448, ... (more)

The BNSF Railway put together a very impressive train for a visit to southern California at the end of January and early February. This train was originally going to be powered by three of the ra... (more)

Union Pacific 127041 was classed with the AAR code XM, making it a "plain, unequipped box car." But it isn’t, really, as it is equipped with pair plug doors with a combined width of 1... (more)

BNSF Railway’s 3rd La Mirada local (symbolled R-CAL0081-171) accelerated out of Basta, just two miles west of the Fullerton passenger station, after stopping for heavy traffic ahead of it on the... (more)

To commemorate the Union Pacific employees who were also active military reservists, UP painted SD40-2 3593 (ex-UP 8084) into this distinctive camouflage scheme. A plaque listing all sixty-six of... (more)

Heading west as my wife and I were taking our walk this evening, we could see that a nice sunset was developing. Once home, I grabbed my camera and headed out the door, which was no surprise to m... (more)

A five-unit set of Santa Fe GPs (ATSF GP30 3249 leading other GP30s and GP35s) leads a westbound freight through Cajon Pass’ Summit in a raging snowstorm. This train will be encountering snow a... (more)

After dropping their train off at Union Pacific’s Dolores Yard, in order for it to be shoved into the nearby Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF), across the street from the yard, the p... (more)

With downtown Los Angeles looming in the background, BNSF Railway train S-LPCLHG1-31 crosses Washington Boulevard as it transitions from BNSF’s San Bernardino Sub to the Alameda Corridor, a 20-m... (more)

On another smokey morning (they were all smokey days on this trip to the Pacific Northwest), a pair of Portland & Western GP39-2s (PNWR 2304 and 2302) have rolled into the small yard in Eugene to ... (more)

Heading east on Norfolk Southern’s Chicago Line is a CSX freight behind a pair of GE ES44ACs: CSXT 5215 and 5220. (Hammond, Indiana – September 24, 2021)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway GP7u 2071 and GP35 2902 sit in San Bernardino’s A Yard. ATSF 2071 was built by EMD in September 1952 as ATSF GP7 2762. It was rebuilt at the railway’s Cleb... (more)