A short, but hot, Z-WSPLAC descends down the grade of Cajon Pass at Hill 582. With the priority of this train, this train was called on the "LA Long Pool". Instead of the crew changing a... (more)

On the back of the BNSF freight with the special car of nuclear waste was this armored caboose IDOX 030001, created by the Department of Energy to specifically escort cars carrying spent nuclear f... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Intermodal Stacks train S-LBTCHI1-20A, with one of those colorful consists that made early BNSF trains so interesting, climbs the western side of Cajon Pass as... (more)

As BNSF Railway train S-LPCLBJ1-19L, an Intermodal Stacks train heading for the Port of Long Beach from Chicago's Logistics Park, passes under the Union Pacific's Yuma Sub in Colton, where the two... (more)

Rounding the curve at Fullerton Junction, and about to pass through the Fullerton Transportation Center (where both Amtrak and Metrolink stop), is BNSF Railway Guaranteed Service Intermodal train ... (more)

Aurora Borealis was slightly visible along BNSF's Needles Sub at Danby. All red across the board at the EBCS East Danby as an eastbound Z-train approaches for a crew change. Once it clears the wes... (more)

The BNSF YWAT2041 Relief Job climbs Monoco Hill in Lawndale, California, on May 5, 2024. The train has run up from Watson Yard in Wilmington, made some drops and pulls at El Segundo, and performed... (more)

The lights of the head end of a westbound stack train light up the hill side as the train passes through Klondike on the BNSF Needles subdivision. The northern lights make a rare appearance in the... (more)

Eastbound manifest rolls through Empire Ca. at mid-morning.

Climbing Cajon Pass as it heads east from Los Angeles to Barstow, and passing through Cajon Pass' iconic Mormon Rocks area, is BNSF Railway train U-LACBAR5-30Z, a "Special Unit Train" co... (more)

As BNSF train Q-RICCHI6-08 (with BNSF Dash 9-44CWs 5215 and 683, along with KCS AC4400CW 4598 – and two more Dash 9-44CWs shoving on the rear: BNSF 5004 and 4960 – for power) climbs the Tehach... (more)

After holding on Track 2 for a pair of passenger trains to stop at the Fullerton Transportation Center (a Metrolink commuter train on Track 3, and an Amtrak Pacific Surfliner on Track 1). ... (more)

Seven GE diesels lead eastbound train H-WATBAR1-22A through Fullerton as it heads from Watson, near the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, to Barstow, in the Mojave Desert. BNSF ES44C4 8061, ES... (more)

BNSF Railway train S-ALTLBT1-18A, carrying containers from Alliance, Texas, to the Long Beach port's Pier T, sits at Basta, about a mile west of Fullerton's Amtrak/Metrolink station, awaiting a ne... (more)

Nearing the end of its journey from Pearland TX to Los Angeles CA is BNSF Railway train Q-PEALAC3-31A. BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5170, SD70ACe 9094 and ES44C4 8249 are passing through the Fullerton Trans... (more)