Union Pacific GP40-2 1394, the former Saint Louis-Southwestern (Cotton Belt) 7638, sits in the UP's J Yard south of downtown Los Angeles. As with so many Union Pacific locomotive assigned to urba... (more)

BNSF Railway "High Priority" freight train H-BARWAT1-31A passes the railroad's Hobart Yard ("Los Angeles" on the railway, adn these days all intermodal traffic) as it heads dow... (more)

BNSF train F-T2191-05 sitting in Williams AZ. BNSF ES44C4s 8353 and 7160 and ... wait a minute! Where is the car? These two were pulling an FRA Test Car, and yet ...

Well, crud! Th... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway GP30 3277 (ex-ATSF 1277) and GP35 3328 (ex-ATSF 1328) head toward Cajon Pass with just two tank cars (and a way car [or caboose to most other railroads]) in tow.... (more)

San Joaquin Valley Railroad GP40 440 was built by EMD in October 1966 as Milwaukee Road 197, later renumbered MILW 2023. Thanks to the bankruptcy of the MILW, the railroad was merged into Soo Lin... (more)

On July 2, 1978, on the Santa Fe's Second District, Valley Division, (milepost 1184.4, between Gately and Rheem) vandals removed the lock off the east switch at Bethlehem Steel and lined the switc... (more)

Built by General Electric in October 1998, Canadian Pacific AC4400CW 8565 is seen at the railway's Pig's Eye Yard (named for a nearby lake). This yard was originally Milwaukee Road's, and then So... (more)

BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4763 leads a Barstow to San Diego freight past the historic Santa Fe station (the white dome above the autoracks, hidden in all the vegetation) in San Juan Capistrano, California,... (more)

It may be January, but the unusually-brown hills in San Timoteo Canyon indicate that southern California had entered another period of drought, lasting from late 2006 through 2009.

Unio... (more)

Departing Long Island Railroad's Jamaica Station westbound is a LI work train with MP15AC 165 leading, pulling car E869 (ex-M3 car 9869, converted to Alcohol/Sandite service, which I believe is fo... (more)

Pulling out of the BNSF Railway's Barstow Yard is a westbound freight, with BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4014, BNSF SD40-2 6894 (ex-ATSF 5166), BNSF Dash 8-40CW 815 (ex-ATSF 815), BNSF Dash 9044CW 5508 and Un... (more)

In Autumn of 2014, the Plymouth & Lincoln Railroad, operator of the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad, acquired SW1000 1012 from locomotive dealer Larry's Truck Electric. (This switcher is ex-LTEX 10... (more)

Pulling a string of autoracks along the Union Pacific's Dolores Industrial Lead is Union Pacific SD45 (now dubbed an SD40M-2) 2664, along with a Union Pacific SD40-2. UP 2664 was built by EMD in ... (more)

Heading eastward on BNSF Railway's Needles Sub, this intermodal train has five Dash 9-44CWs for power: BNSF 5484, 4150, 779, 4950 and 4008. (Barstow, California - November 6, 2007)

DEcember days are short, and as Amtrak Pacific Surfliner Weekend Service train 580 arrives at the Orange station at 3:45 pm (15:45) the sun is already very low in the sky ... but providing... (more)