Amtrak train 3, the Southwest Chief, departed Chicago with two operating P42DCs (93 and 116), one dead-heading unit (113) and 10 cars. By the time the Chief got to Colorado, 116 had ... (more)

Looks Can Be Deceiving…

This appears to be rather ordinary: One of an endless parade of BNSF Railway intermodal trains (in this case, S-LBTMEM1-16A, heading from Long B... (more)

Passing through the wide-open Mojave Desert is BNSF railway train Q-ATGLAC7-24V approaches the yard in Barstow, where the power will most likely get refueled as the crew is relieved with a fresh c... (more)

An Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway westbound freight rounds a curve on a trestle over Brea Creek as it heads to Los Angeles’ Hobart Yard behind a quintet of EMD Geeps: GP35s 3369 and 3415, G... (more)

Running just 6 hours 53 minutes behind schedule, this day’s Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is just about to its next-to-last stop in Fullerton. (The previous day’s trai... (more)

Metro-North Railroad's Harlem-125th Street Station in Manhattan is a very busy station. Throughout the day, it is very common to see two or three trains arriving and departing at the same time, a... (more)

Parked on the whiskers of the turntable in Southern Pacific’s Bakersfield yard are a pair of consecutively numbered Denver & Rio Grande Western GP35s: 3044 and 3045. What were the odds? By th... (more)

BNSF Railway train X-FRSDRA2-28L, an empty unit grain train that originated in Richmond CA heads east on the BNSF's Needles Sub for Drayton, North Dakota. The train is seen here parallel to Inter... (more)

A quartet of BNSF Railway General Electric diesels bring an intermodal train down Cajon Pass. Nothing unusual about that. But snow had fallen in the Pass’ higher elevations, and that’s alway... (more)

Daggett is only 1½ miles (2.4 km) from Barstow, but far enough away to have desert scenery that makes Barstow look like Los Angeles in comparison. (And, yes, that is a massive exaggeration ... o... (more)

Union Pacific SD70ACe 8809 and SD70M 5117 have coupled on to train KLBG4 11 and will soon depart the railroad's Dolores Yard to their train, which originated in nearby Long Beach, to Elwood, Illin... (more)

BNSF Railway ES44C4 7139 (along with ES44C4 6598 and ES44DC 7249) leads Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-WSPSBD7-04L through the hamlet of Blue Cut at sunset as it moves down Cajon Pass on its ... (more)

Just about to divert from BNSF Railway’s Needles Sub (on which UP has trackage rights) onto Union Pacific’s Los Angeles Sub – at least for another 3 miles (4.8 km), until arriving in Yermo (... (more)

One hundred years after being built by J.G. Brill Company, Pacific Electric "Hollywood" car 717 is still rolling up the miles. This suburban car, seen transporting visitors to the South... (more)

The Frontier Cooperative Company's grain elevator in Silver Creek NE has GP7 DDDX 4162 assigned to it to handle car switching. (DDDX is the AAR reporting mark for Frontier Cooperative Co.) This ... (more)