In this view of Glasgow’s Queen Street station (Sràid na Banrighinn) a First ScotRail (SPT) 170 class diesel multiple-unit Turbostar 170 428 can be seen on track 4. These DMUs were constru... (more)

BNSF Railway local R-CAL0151-29I, the "San-Jac Roadswitcher," has completed their work in eastern Riverside (railroad "east," that is, on the north side of the city) and the po... (more)

Metrolink commuter train 802 speeds through the Inland Empire on its way from Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo (in upper-middle-class Orange County, where, according to the 2010 US Census, Laguna Nigue... (more)

Happy 50th Anniversary, Amtrak!

Fifty years to the day from the first run of Amtrak train 18, the eastbound Super-Chief-El Capitan, its 2021 version, train 4 Sou... (more)

BNSF Railway local R-CAL0151-29I, the "San-Jac Roadswitcher," has completed their work in eastern Riverside (railroad "east," that is, on the north side of the city) and is abo... (more)

With engineer Mike Mucklin at the throttle, BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-26L heads for Los Angeles from New York NY. A pair of Norfolk Southern engines, SD70ACe 1078 and AC44C6M 4407, are powering this 8... (more)

BNSF shoving platform BN 12568, wearing a neatly applied if unauthorized graffiti scheme (complete with clear and legible reporting mark and roadnumber), brings up the rear of local R-CAL0162-28 a... (more)

Running 3 hours behind schedule, Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, hustles through Highgrove as it approaches its next stop in Riverside. P42DCs 77 and 206 are in charge of th... (more)

Heat waves rise off the five locomotives leading BNSF Railway Z-LACLPK9-28 as it passes under California Highway 91 at Prado Dam on its way from Los Angeles to Kansas City KS. This intermodal tra... (more)

BNSF intermodal train S-MEMSCO1-21L, which originated in Memphis, Tennessee, passes through Highgrove, an unincorporated part of Riverside County. This 6416-foot, 69 car train has pool power on t... (more)

Two miles west of the Fullerton passenger station is Basta, the location for most of the Twentieth Century was the location where Union Pacific’s Anaheim Branch crossed the Santa Fe’s Third Distri... (more)

Nearly three years after Amtrak began operating most of America’s passenger trains, the carrier restored service to California’s San Joaquin Valley on March 5, 1974. Due to heavy freight traffic ... (more)

California has a number of "must see" railroad locations: The original Transcontinental railroad over the solid granite of Donner Pass, The Union Pacific’s Coast Line and Amtrak’s Surf ... (more)

California Department of Transportation (CDTX) Dash 8-32BWH 2051 was built as Amtrak 501 in December 1991. (Oakland, California – February 20, 2018). Photographed on railroad property with pe... (more)

Santa Fe GP38 3504 rolled out of the General Motors Electro-Motive Division factory in McCook* IL in June 1970, wearing the ATSF’s attractive blue and yellow "pinstripe" scheme. This Ge... (more)