On Memorial Day 2020, the holiday lull in rail traffic was taken advantage of when a special high/wide load was hauled from San Onofre, in northern San Diego County to Apex, Nevada. Morning passe... (more)

On Memorial Day 2020, the holiday lull in rail traffic was taken advantage of when a special high/wide load was hauled from San Onofre, in northern San Diego County to Apex, Nevada. Morning passe... (more)

A pair of brand-new BNSF ES44C4s, 3259 and 3261, are teamed with Dash 9-44CW 4033 to bring Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-WSPSBD7-15 from Willow Springs IL to San Bernardino CA. This westbou... (more)

SunRail train P315 arrives at the Amtrak station in Orlando. The Spanish Mission-style station, featuring a pair of bell towers, arches, a parapet and tile roofing, was built by the Atlantic Coas... (more)

A daylight run to San Diego for BNSF vehicle train V-BARSDG4-23A, as it passes through CP Maple in the city of Orange, as the train comes off Metrolink’s Olive Sub and joins Metrolink’s Orange... (more)

Even in the 21st Century, the Union Pacific Railroad can still put together the most impressive passenger trains of any railroad in North America. And here is where it all happens – The Union P... (more)

A BNSF Railway local lays over for the evening at the former Frisco 19th Street Yard in Kansas City’s West Bottoms District. Both diesels were constructed by EMD for the Santa Fe - GP50 3205 is... (more)

On a gloomy March day, a pair of LTEX SW1500s, 1074 and 1100, are done with their day’s work and are heading back to the little engine servicing facility operated by the Raritan Central Railway ... (more)

Texas Gonzales and Northern GP7 102 was built by EMD in October 1950 for the St. Luis-San Francisco Railroad as their number 528. Chicago & North Western purchased it from the Frisco, chopped its... (more)

Waiting at the crossing in Flatonia, Texas, we got a bit excited to see a vehicle train led by a CSX engine coming our way. As it got closer, it looked odd, but as it was still in a cloud shadow ... (more)

On November 16, 2015, a Canadian National local, with just one car (at the moment) heads north on the CN’s Waukesha Subdivision through Duplainville, a neighborhood in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. Powe... (more)

It’s a gloomy day on the Southern Great Plains, where Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway GP60 8711 and GP39-2R 2811 sit between assignments. These two EMD Geeps, built 25 years apart, still w... (more)

Still wearing the the colors and markings of its original owner, Carolina Southern Railroad GP30 2613 could easily be mistaken for Southern Railway 2613. This forty-five-year-old locomotive not o... (more)

Chatsworth Rocks, in Santa Susana Pass in the northwest corner of Los Angeles, was the location of countless early Western films, from silent movies up to Roy Rogers’ television show. It has al... (more)

When the old beast is awakened, it coughs up a bit of carbon soot as it is once again coaxed back to life on September 16, 2010. This venerable old switcher, Ray-Carroll NW2 3151, is assigned to ... (more)