Most days there is mainline power sitting on the wye in Union Pacific’s West Anaheim Yard, laying over between the run from West Colton to Anaheim before returning. On this day, UP AC4400CW 566... (more)

The Joint Line is a pair of parallel mainlines connecting Denver with Pueblo, about 120 miles to the south. One of these mainlines is the original 1880s-built Denver & Rio Grande Western line, wi... (more)

Perhaps the best view from the entire New York City subway system is at the elevated station at the Smith-9th Streets Station in Brooklyn, looking at lower Manhattan from across the East River. N... (more)

Winding its way across the through truss bridge in the middle of an S-curve on BNSF's Cajon Sub on October 13, 2019, is Union Pacific AC4400CW 6876 (desperately in need of a new paint job) as the ... (more)

Originally called Union Station, the Union Pacific station was built in 1908-1908, and served UP passenger trains until the end of UP passenger operations on May 1, 1971. Amtrak used this station ... (more)

Amtrak San Joaquin 715, making its way from Bakersfield to Oakland with a 500-class Dash 8-32BWH for power, slows for its stop at Denair, near Turlock in California’s rural Stanislaus Cou... (more)

With sweet low winter lighting, I decided to take an anti-drone photo from a low perspective. That, or I’m just a klutz who had fallen and could not get up, but had my camera at the ready … a... (more)

The New York City MTA subway station at Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn is built on a curve, and it creates a nice variation from the stations on tangent track. NYCT R160 car 9858 leads a G Lin... (more)

I stumbled upon this train as it was approaching the station in Orange, and was surprised to see it as daytime freights on the old Santa Fe 4th District, dubbed the "Surf Line," (today M... (more)

A pair of Metra commuter trains operating on their BNSF Line have arrived at the western-most point of their trip, and will be departing soon to head back to downtown Chicago. METX F40PHM-2 191 a... (more)

Hard at work assembling trains at the Indiana Harbor Belt’s Blue Island Yard are IHB SW1500 1505 (ex-IHB 9222, née-EMDX 109) and GP40-2L 4022 (ex-Canadian National 9554). These engines look sh... (more)

With the morning's fog burned off, Union Pacific local LOA32 makes its way from Anaheim’s West Anaheim Yard to Santa Ana with UP GP40P-2 1375 and GP60 1083 pulling sixteen cars. As it does so, ... (more)

Metra train 512, weekend service from downtown Chicago to Elburn, rolls into the Villa Park station on the Union Pacific/West Line. METX F40PH 148, named Village of Fox Lake, was built by ... (more)

As Southern Pacific C415s 2409 and 2405 are bringing a freight out of Anaheim, they meet SP SW8 1123 and its C-40-3 class cupola caboose some five miles into their trip to City of Industry*. (Bue... (more)

The first big storm of the season hit southern California the day before, but it wasn’t quite cold enough to drop much snow on the San Gabriel Mountains – but a little is better than none. BN... (more)