Heading to Los Angeles, Southern Pacific GS-4 4449 makes a service stop in Tehachapi after climbing out of the San Joaquin Valley. The low sun this morning creates a mood similar to a plein ai... (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)

BNSF Railway train Q-SBDCHI6-16K, ferrying containers from San Bernardino CA to Chicago IL; traverses eastward on Kansas City Terminal's East-West Corridor through downtown KC. BNSF ES44C4 6636, ... (more)

Indiana Harbor Belt GP40P-2 4010 (ex-Southern Pacific 7600; née-SP 3197) and GP40-2 4012 (ex-Union Pacific 1303, née-SP 7625) work the railroad's Blue Island Yard, as IHB slug 2021 (ex-IHB 3GS21... (more)

Amtrak train 36, the eastbound Desert Wind (Los Angeles CA to Ogden UT) cuts through the haze as it passes the old Santa Fe station sign for Casa Blanca (White House), a neighborhood in Riv... (more)

Union Pacific Railway GP40P-2 1375 first showed up in Anaheim in November 2021 with no graffiti upon it. Roughly two-and-a-half years later, it looks like this. Built by EMD in November 1974 as ... (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)

Wearing a fresh paint job is Union Pacific SD70ACe 8335, although the UP shield has yet to be applied to the nose. Built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in April 2005, this diesel has r... (more)

A Little Rock & Western Railway northbound freight, LRWN 101-10, crosses the Arkansas River on the Union Pacific's Baring Cross drawbridge. (While operating on the UP, this train's symbol is UP L... (more)

The Metro Streetcar, operated by Rock Region Metro and formerly known as the River Rail Streetcar, is a two-line heritage streetcar system operating in Little Rock and North Little Rock, Arkansas.... (more)

On its way to Los Angeles for promotional purposes, British Columbia "Royal Hudson" 2860 (ex-Canadian Pacific 2860) rounds the famed Tehachapi Loop as it climbs up and over the Tehachapi... (more)

On its maiden run after receiving Amtrak's Phase VII paint scheme, Amtrak P42DC 167 leads a late train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, as it departs Fullerton headed for its final stop at... (more)

Amtrak has a new paint scheme being applied to their P42DCs, the Phase VII scheme. So far it has been applied to 174 and 82 … and now 167, seen on its maiden run in its third paint scheme. Fre... (more)

A Union Pacific eastbound train, operating on BNSF's San Bernardino Sub, with an eclectic mix of early merger power: Southern Pacific SD45R 7453 (ex-SP SD45 8887), Union Pacific SD40-2 3915 and a... (more)

The fifteen-stall Lenzen Roundhouse was originally built in 1899 to serve the standard gauge San Jose-San Francisco rail commuter line and the narrow gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad, replacing ... (more)