Stretching for 13,859 feet (2.625 miles) behind the power, BNSF Railway intermodal stack train S-LBPLPC1-12L originated in Long Beach, California's Pacific Container Terminal (PCT) and it headed f... (more)

Passing through the S-curve at Fullerton Junction just before 19:00 (7:00 pm), BNSF ES44C4 6727 and Dash 9-44CW 1006 move their train, Q-MEMLAC6-08A (Guaranteed Service Intermodal; Memphis TN to L... (more)

Santa Fe 8798 rounds the curve on the Cajon Summit, and into the early morning sunlight, as it leads an eastbound intermodal towards Barstow.

Santa Fe 5155 leads a westbound intermodal train through Cajon Pass.

A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing A Kansas City to Los Angeles intermodal ends its trip with a BNSF fakebonnet. When BNSF was newly formed, they acquired a handful of Dash 9s originally ordered b... (more)

As BNSF's S-LPCLBE1-02L (Intermodal Stacks; Logistics Park Chicago IL to Long Beach CA) awaits a fresh crew, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 784 (Goleta CA to Irvine CA, truncated from going to Sa... (more)

Five Santa Fe Alco S4s sit by the roads Roundhouse in September 1976 these units lasted a while longer because i got to see them again in Chicago in 1979

So Much Has Changed in 38 Years (from Today!)

An eastbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe piggyback train stops in San Bernardino for a crew change. This train, most likely symbolle... (more)

It may be early January, but there is not a lot of snow on the San Gabriel Mountains as BNSF train M-WATBAR1-06, a merchandise train ("Look, Ma! No double-stacks!") that originated in W... (more)

Factory Fresh!

As the sun appears over the San Bernardino Mountains, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway train Q-NYLA (Quality Network [TOFC/COFC]; East Coast [CR Connection in Ch... (more)

A Santa Fe freight heads east behind a C30-7, F45, C30-7, SD40-2, SD40-2 consist … so typical of the railway’s power consists in the late 80s. (Corona, California – January 1988)

Now that summer has arrived, the green hills have turned into fuel for the wildfires that plague the west each year, but fortunately on this day there were no fires in Santa Ana Canyon (as there w... (more)

For the second day in a row, the BNSF train from Barstow to San Diego passed through the city of Orange at about 10:30 in the morning, making for a daylight run along the beach. And also for the ... (more)

While the old Santa Fe "Surf Line", now Metrolink's Orange Sub, is closed to passenger traffic in San Clemente due to yet another landslide, freight trains are still allowed to pass by a... (more)

Burlington Northern 7130 leads a colorful consist towards Tunnel 2 on Tehachapi Pass a few days after Thanksgiving.