Spotted in San Bernardino’s B Yard was waycar (what the Santa Fe called cabooses) 999630. This car was built in August 1948 (original four-digit number unknown), and rebuilt into a CE-3 class c... (more)

Santa Fe 9537, painted in the "Kodachrome" scheme for the proposed Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railway (a merger that was ultimately denied), leads an eastbound freight at May, on Santa Fe... (more)

A CSX freight slams across the diamonds as it travels through one of five through-truss steel bridges that span the Cal-Sag Channel in suburban Chicago. CSXT ES44DC 5231 and Dash 8-40CW 7718 are ... (more)

BNSF’s "Daygo," the freight to San Diego, cruises down Metrolink’s Orange Sub behind Dash 9-44CW 5032 and a pair of ET44C4s. This train, symbolled H-BARSDG1-27A; originated in Barst... (more)

At the eastern end of the Fullerton Transportation Center – the city’s Amtrak and Metrolink station – is Fullerton Junction. At this point, BNSF’s triple-track San Bernardino Sub reduces ... (more)

Oh … So the Flashing Red Lights Mean "Stop"?

As Southern Pacific's Huntington Beach Hauler was heading west (compass north) on the Stanton Branch back to Anaheim, at jus... (more)

An Unexpected Delay

As Southern Pacific's Huntington Beach Hauler was heading west (compass north) on the Stanton Branch back to Anaheim, at just 25 miles per hour, a moro... (more)

Amtrak train 36, the eastbound Desert Wind, pauses at the station in Fullerton, California, on October 6, 1994. Amtrak Dash 8-40BWH 803 will power this five-car train on its trip from Los ... (more)

Ten months, almost to the day, after the Union Pacific officially took over ownership if the mighty Southern Pacific, a trio of still-unrenumbered AC4400CWs, among the last locomotives purchased b... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe freight circumnavigates the famed Tehachapi Loop as it climbs out of California’s San Joaquin Valley and up into the Mojave Desert. ATSF U36C 8716 leads this train, follow... (more)

Metrolink’s newest service serves the Perris Valley, southeast of Riverside, opened on June 6, 2016. Train 708 is a "91/Perris Valley Line" train, and is seen making the third stop on... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-NYCLAC of late has often had either solid Norfolk Southern power, or mixed NS/BNSF power with the NS units on the point. Such was the case again as this New York to Los Angel... (more)

BNSF Railway 3GS21C-DE 1313 heads east at the Commerce Diesel Facility to pick up an intermodal well car in order to shove it back to Hobart Yard. Contrary to what is stated on the book BNSF R... (more)

Union Pacific SD60M 6334 was built by EMD in September 1992. The UP later renumbered it to 2489. It was one of several SD60Ms selected to be rebuilt into an SD59M-2 (also called an SD22ECO by so... (more)

Passing through downtown Birmingham is a Norfolk Southern eastbound with a quartet of clean diesels with interesting lineage: SD40-2 3201 (ex-Southern Railway 3201), SD40-2 6171 (ex-Norfolk & Wes... (more)