Running a little late (just 1 hour 25 minutes … not too bad for a long-distance train running between Chicago IL and Emeryville CA) is Amtrak train 5, the westbound California Zephyr. P4... (more)

With the 2000-foot (or higher) peaks of Pinnacles Nation Park rising in the distance, Amtrak train 11, the Seattle WA to Los Angeles CA Coast Starlight, skirts a large swath of farmland in ... (more)

Heading from Barstow to San Diego, BNSF ES44C4 7008, ES44DC 7865 and ES44C4 8210 are leading train H-BARSDG1-09, comprised of 34 loaded cars. The train is bisecting Chapman University as it passe... (more)

There is a big crowd on hand as Amtrak train 572, a Los Angeles to San Diego Pacific Surfliner, departs the Fullerton Transportation Center behind F59PHI 463. But the crowd is hear for the... (more)

Approaching Control Point Maple, where Metrolink's Orange Sub meets their Olive Sub (the two tracks in the foreground), is Union Pacific Railroad local LOA32, the Costa Mesa Local, heading ... (more)

San Diego-bound Amtrak San Diegan 772 makes its first stop, in Fullerton, after departing Los Angeles. Eleven-month-old Amtrak SDP40F 527, with a lot of dirt on it, as well as the trademar... (more)

A pair of BNSF Railway diesels, ET44C4 3755 and ES44C4 7014, are tucked away on the trackage connecting the railway's San Bernardino Sub in Commerce (a city in which every building pretty much loo... (more)

Union Pacific GP40-2 1394, the former Saint Louis-Southwestern (Cotton Belt) 7638, sits in the UP's J Yard south of downtown Los Angeles. As with so many Union Pacific locomotive assigned to urba... (more)

BNSF Railway "High Priority" freight train H-BARWAT1-31A passes the railroad's Hobart Yard ("Los Angeles" on the railway, adn these days all intermodal traffic) as it heads dow... (more)

BNSF train F-T2191-05 sitting in Williams AZ. BNSF ES44C4s 8353 and 7160 and ... wait a minute! Where is the car? These two were pulling an FRA Test Car, and yet ...

Well, crud! Th... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway GP30 3277 (ex-ATSF 1277) and GP35 3328 (ex-ATSF 1328) head toward Cajon Pass with just two tank cars (and a way car [or caboose to most other railroads]) in tow.... (more)

San Joaquin Valley Railroad GP40 440 was built by EMD in October 1966 as Milwaukee Road 197, later renumbered MILW 2023. Thanks to the bankruptcy of the MILW, the railroad was merged into Soo Lin... (more)

On July 2, 1978, on the Santa Fe's Second District, Valley Division, (milepost 1184.4, between Gately and Rheem) vandals removed the lock off the east switch at Bethlehem Steel and lined the switc... (more)

Built by General Electric in October 1998, Canadian Pacific AC4400CW 8565 is seen at the railway's Pig's Eye Yard (named for a nearby lake). This yard was originally Milwaukee Road's, and then So... (more)

BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4763 leads a Barstow to San Diego freight past the historic Santa Fe station (the white dome above the autoracks, hidden in all the vegetation) in San Juan Capistrano, California,... (more)