Three engines in three paint schemes is always a nice treat! This is BNSF train S-OMASCO1-23A, which originated in Omaha NE and is heading to Long Beach CA, behind ET44C4 3815 (built in April 201... (more)

The power for VIA train 2, the eastbound Canadian, is backing onto their train at Vancouver's Pacific Central Station. Today’s train has VIA FP9 1413 (ex-CP 1413), F9B 1962 (ex-CP 4474, ... (more)

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority operates heavy-rail, light-rail, subway and bus service in the Boston area. Three heavy-rail lines are color-coded (Blue, Orange and Red), as is their l... (more)

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority operates heavy-rail, light-rail, subway and bus service in the Boston area. Three heavy-rail lines are color-coded (Blue, Orange and Red), as is their l... (more)

Mixed in among the nearly constant parade of Intermodal trains on BNSF Railway Needles Sub are a few "loose car" freights. One of these is seen there, as train H-BELBAR 3-12 (a High Priority Merc... (more)

Ordered in 1990 from Morrison-Knudsen and rebuilt from secondhand (thirdhand?) GP40 hulls purchased by M-K, thirty-nine GP40Rs were added to Southern Pacific’s roster as SP 7100-7138. The first... (more)

A four-engine set of Union Pacific diesels pass the UP’s 4th Street Yard, head north on Metrolink’s River Subdivision East Bank Line as they run along the Los Angeles River to the UP’s East ... (more)

Conductor Walters and Engineer Cox have plenty of time to get their train, BNSF Q-NYCLAC6-08L, to the next crew change point, as it is just fifteen miles ahead and they still have 3 hours and 40 m... (more)

BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-08L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal, New York NY to Los Angeles CA), with run-through Norfolk Southern power (ES44AC 8104 in Heritage paint for the old Lehigh Valley Railroad a... (more)

BNSF train S-PEASCO3-10, an Intermodal Stack heading to Long Beach CA from Pearland TX, rounds the curve at the west end of Ludlow, on the railway’s Needles Sub. This train is led by an ES44C4 ... (more)

BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-08L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal, New York NY to Los Angeles CA), with run-through Norfolk Southern power (ES44AC 8104 in Heritage paint for the old Lehigh Valley Railroad a... (more)

In the early 1970s, the Santa Fe Railway expanded their yard in Barstow, in southern California’s Mojave Desert, by extending it – basically building a whole new yard – west of the original ... (more)

After stopping to allow hot BNSF train Z-NBYWSP9-14U to thread its way around eastbound BNSF S-LBELPC1-13 and westbound Q-ALTLAC1-12, engineer JM Rossi is accelerating BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5505 gets t... (more)

Racing across the Mojave Desert in 107ºF (41.67ºC) heat is BNSF Railway train Q-NYCLAC6-08L, running nearly 84 hours behind schedule (thanks to a derailment in Missouri), with an all-Norfolk Sou... (more)

BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-08L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal, New York NY to Los Angeles CA) is running nearly 84 hours behind schedule as it rounds the curve at Milepost 694 on the BNSF’s Needles Su... (more)