It is only 3:54 pm (15:54), but the sun is already low in the sky, and will set in another hour. Still, it is all good, as Pacific Harbor Line local YPSW14-27 rarely switches the Weyerhaeuser Lum... (more)

It was a busy afternoon at Metrolink’s station in Orange due to a fatal trespasser strike in Santa Ana, which closed the line for over three hours. At 3:39 pm (15:39), Metrolink train 663 (Ocea... (more)

Wisconsin Central SD45 7505 is the former WC 6505, originally BN 6505. (Schiller Park, Illinois - September 20, 1997)

As a late autumn storm moves out, Metrolink train 806 rolls in. Metrolink F125 930 leads this Inland Empire-Orange County Line train, which originated in Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo and is headed... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train Q-LACWSP1-24 passes under the signal bridge at May, on the railway’s San Bernardino Sub. BNSF Dash 9-44CW 777, SD75I 8274 and Dash 9-44CW 1037 are lea... (more)

A trio of SD40-2s, or what Union Pacific now calls "SD40N"s, work a cut of cars in the railroad’s West Colton Yard: UP 1554 (ex-UP 3225), UP 1609 (ex-UP 3413) and UP 1675 (ex-UP 3254,... (more)

An interesting freight train travels west on the Union Pacific’s Kearney Sub behind UP SD40-2 3345. (Gothenburg, Nebraska – August 20, 1987)

Lounging in the Belt Railway of Chicago’s Clearing Yard are BRC C424 602 and Union Pacific SD40-2 3345. (Bedford Park, Illinois – September 19, 1997). Photographed on railroad property wit... (more)

A lot has changed here since 1981: The Mt. Vernon Avenue overpass is gone (and will be replaced with a less-rickety structure), the tower at A Yard is gone, A yard is now an intermodal fac... (more)

Forty-five minutes after arriving at the eastern end of BNSF Railway’s Barstow Yard, train Q-NSABAR6-20’s power cutoff and moved to the engine facility. Canadian Pacific SD70ACU 6644, which w... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-NSABAR6-20, a Guaranteed Service Intermodal train operating from Norfolk Southern’s Ashland Avenue Yard in Chicago, Illinois, to Barstow, California, has arrived at the east... (more)

Pacific Harbor Line MP20C-3 65 sits in Union Pacific’s Dolores Yard after delivering a train, which UP will soon assign locomotives to in order to get merchandise headed out of the Ports of Los ... (more)

It is only 3:52 pm (15:52), but the sun is already low in the sky, and will set in another hour. Still, it is all good, as Pacific Harbor Line local YPSW14-27 rarely switches the Weyerhaeuser Lum... (more)

A CSX crew working on the diamonds takes a brief break to allow an Iowa Interstate train, crossing the Calumet Sag Channel on the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal (also known as the Indiana Harbo... (more)

Parked at Milepost 7 on the BNSF Railway’s Cajon Sub is train Q-LACLPC6-23 (Guaranteed Service Intermodal; Los Angeles CA to Logistics Park Chicago IL). On this day, we saw 13 trains (and, we s... (more)