An Amtrak Cascades trainset sits in Portland’s Union Station between runs, having recently arrived as train 517 from Vancouver, British Columbia – 187 miles to the north. (Vancouver, W... (more)

Factory-fresh Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Dash 8-40BW 519 (built 10/90) sits in the railway’s Corwith Yard, awaiting it’s next assignment. These were heady days on the Santa Fe, as the 500s fo... (more)

One of Southern Pacific’s "Haulers," short-haul freights that transferred cars between yards, large or small, departed the railroad’s West Colton Yard eastbound, as all departures do... (more)

Pacific Electric Steeplecab 1624 is seen undergoing restoration in Barn 7 at the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris. Built by the PE’s Torrance Shops in 1924, this electric locomotive... (more)

On the last full day of summer 2020, Metrolink train 689 passes through CP Maple as it heads to Los Angeles with F125 919 shoving on the rear. SCAX 919 was built by EMD in February 2017, but did ... (more)

A Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Blue Line train arrives at the Arlington Cemetery station on its trip from Franconia-Springfield VA to Largo MD. The majority of Washington DC's M... (more)

On Friday, September 18, Union Pacific swapped GP60 1064 for GP60 1150. When I stopped by two days later, I discovered the pleasing sound of UP 1150 idling in the yard. This surprised me, as UP ... (more)

Reading Company RS-3 467, built by the American Locomotive Company in May 1952, was sold to the Peabody Coal Company. It was later purchased – and restored – by the Reading Historical Society... (more)

In October 1973, British Columbia Railway M420 645 emerged from the Montreal Locomotive Works plant in Montreal, Québec, one of eight to be built for the western Canada railway. The M420s were a... (more)

Illinois Central Dash 8-40CW 2459 is the former LMSX 732. In the mid-90s, LMS leased a group of these Dash 8s to Conrail and Canadian National subsidiary Illinois Central – LMS 700-739 – with... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-LACNSA6-06A, a high priority train hauling containers from Los Angeles CA to Norfolk Southern's Ashland Avenue Yard in Chicago IL navigates the S-curve at milepost 58 in south... (more)

Just after sunset on another smoky day in the Western US, BNSF Railway train H-BARWAT1-12 (High Priority Merchandise, Barstow to Watson) is about to get overtaken by another westbound (the S-LPKSC... (more)

Traditional railroading was on display on the Coos Bay Railroad as centerbeam lumber cars are picked up and set out at the lumber mill in rural Oregon, as a switchman rides the rear of a cut of em... (more)

Crossing the Columbia River just after sundown, a BNSF Railway local crosses the 1908-built, 2,807-foot-long (856 m) swing span bridge – BNSF Railway Bridge 9.6 – and, as it does, crosses from... (more)

This may look like Southern Pacific 70-ton 5100, and it was in fact Southern Pacific 70-ton 5100 when built by General Electric in April 1949 (and until 12/22/76), but it is actually Oregon Pacifi... (more)