A fire broke out in Cajon Pass' Blue Cut area and all rail traffic was stopped. BNSF was prepping their fire suppression train, based in Commerce (a few miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles) t... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-NYCLAC6-22, a Guaranteed Service Intermodal train, originated in New York and is now not far from its destination, Los Angeles. As usual of late, this train has a Norfolk Sou... (more)

Commuters riding North County Transit District’s commuter trains, popularly known as the Coaster, have perhaps the prettiest commute in America, as their trains, operating between Oceanside and ... (more)

Following the December 1982 merger of the Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific into the Union Pacific in 1982, MoPac’s large fleet of 281 GP38-2s was flung over the entire UP syste... (more)

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Dash 9-44CW (718), a pair of ex-Santa Fe Dash 8-40CWs (877 and 895) and a Burlington Northern SD40-2 (6919) are in charge of hot intermodal train Z-SBDALT1-20, as it... (more)

The Southern California Railroad Museum (formerly the Orange Empire Railroad Museum) has assembled a nice collection of diesel locomotives that have been nicely restored, including to operating co... (more)

It was a warm day, but the heat distortion is caused by the 17,600 horsepower of BNSF ES44DC 7870, Dash 9-44CW 4595, AC4400CW 5658 and ES44C4 7012, combining to pull Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal tr... (more)

Super Bowl Bound

Two-thirds of the entire fleet of Heritage II diesels on the BNSF (at that time) lead a Super Bowl special (O-SBDSDG1-23) to San Diego, at the west end of... (more)

Three of Union Pacific’s six Heritage units, 1988 (Missouri-Kansas-Texas Heritage), 1982 (Missouri Pacific Heritage) and 1989 (Rio Grande Heritage) were found behind the shop building in the rai... (more)

Union Pacific train KAILC 02 (intermodal, Atlanta GA to Los Angeles CA) approaches the railroad’s West Colton Yard in Colton, California, on a hot (98º/36.67ºC) July 5, 2017, afternoon. But t... (more)

Running 30 minutes late, Amtrak train 314 departs from a town in central Missouri behind P42DC 66, belching smoke and temporarily drowning out the music from the town’s Octoberfest celebration, ... (more)

♫ It’s Two … Two … Two Trains in One! ♫*

While this train, BNSF S-FRESCO1-30A, appears to be ordinary, in the third decade of the Twenty-First Centur... (more)

A Santa Fe piggyback train, most likely the 891 (Los Angeles CA to Chicago IL) has just made a crew change in San Bernardino and it once again moving east. A quartet of ATSF Dash 8-40BWs – the ... (more)

At 3:00 pm (15:00) this trainset passed through Orange as Metrolink train 684, an Orange County Line train operating from Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo (Orange County’s "twin c... (more)

Union Pacific GP60 1105, built as Cotton Belt 9648 in September 1989, has completed its run on Friday, and will sit here over the weekend, as its next call to duty will be Monday morning. (Anahei... (more)