BNSF Railway train Q-NWHLAC6-30 leans into a curve as it heads west toward Cajon Pass. BNSF ES44AC 5750 and British Columbia Railway Dash 9-44CW 4653 are leading this 11,142-foot long intermodal ... (more)

Santa Fe Railway’s Topeka shops built Baggage Car 3922 in 1958, and in 1970 it was one of ten Baggage Cars to be rebuilt into Steam Generator Cars in order to provide steam when steam line-equip... (more)

In 1972, Seaboard Coast Line, Frisco and the Santa Fe operated a special promotional train from Richmond, California, to Richmond, Virginia to promote improved transcontinental service, thanks to ... (more)

Stradling the boundary between two cities, BNSF Railway train Z-LACNYC9-28 parallels Crowther Avenue, the eastbound lanes of which are in Anaheim while the westbound lanes are in Placentia, effect... (more)

Parked on a spur at the Santa Fe station in Amarillo, and connected to a steam line; is Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe business car 57. Built by Pullman in 1924, this 73'6"-long car was originally nu... (more)

California Western GP9 65 brings three covered hoppers to Goshen Junction. This is the San Joaquin Valley Railroad’s Goshen Sub, and the SJVR has borrowed this engine for a while – it was bac... (more)

Speeding through suburban Orange County is BNSF intermodal double-stack train S-LPCLBE1-23, ticking off the last few miles on its trip from Chicago’s Logistics Park to Long Beach. BNSF ES44C4 6... (more)

It’s a bit of a cheat, but sometimes the best shot of a train is on the rear, particularly if the Distributed Power Units are facing rearward. Such was the case with Union Pacific train WELYUZ-... (more)

Dwarfed by Cajon Pass’ Mormon Rocks is Union Pacific train WELYUZ-20, a work train (a solid train of Herzog ballast cars) traveling from Elsey CA to Yuma AZ. Overnight and early morning snow st... (more)

One of Cajon Pass’ iconic locations is the big curve that leads eastbound trains in Summit. Following a snowing night, BNSF Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-SBDWSP9-25 (San Bernardino CA to ... (more)

Winding through the S-curve at Mormon Rocks in Cajon Pass, BNSF Intermodal Stacks train S-ALTLBT1-21 makes it way from Alliance, Texas, to the Port of Long Beach’s Pier T. They typical quartet ... (more)

After getting reports that Long Beach’s Metro Ports’ new locomotive was sitting in Union Pacificâ... (more)

Norfolk Southern GP38-2 5199, the former Southern Railway 5199, has completed it work and is heading back on the NS’s Illinois Division’s Kansas City District to Avondale Yard. (Birmingham, M... (more)

Tucked away deep in a Mid America Locomotive & Car Repair facility is Valiant Management and Holdings LLC CF7 2584. As with all CF7s, this engine was built by EMD as a Santa Fe F-Unit, in this ca... (more)

At the last light of day Metrolink train 688, operating on the southbound on the system’s Orange County Line (heading from Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo) has shut its ditchlights of... (more)