On its maiden run after receiving Amtrak's Phase VII paint scheme, Amtrak P42DC 167 leads a late train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, as it departs Fullerton headed for its final stop at... (more)

Long live the Long & Nasty... CSX M573-28 with the L&N Heritage Mullet passing L&N 796.

A somewhat rare daylight move of a San Diego-bound freight, BNSF H-BARSDG1-25A, occurred when the train transitioned off Metrolink’s Olive Sub and onto Metrolink’s Orange Sub at 11:00 am, as A... (more)

Grafton & Upton 1751 is sporting fresh paint after repairs were made after years on the side line. The GP9R was built as a straight GP9 for the Grand Trunk Western as their 4932 in November, 1958.... (more)

The esteemed Conductor, Brad Swartzwelter, of the Amtrak's Winter Park Express Ski Train, is retiring from Amtrak after 30 years of service, and will make his last WPE ride on the 31st of March on... (more)

A manifest comes into West Colton Yard off the Palmdale Cutoff. Power are a pair of SD40T-2s (SP and DRGW) bookending a MK SD40M-2 rebuild. Oct 25 1995.

An MP15 swaps cars to and from the Charlotte Pipe facility in Oakboro.

The Polar Bear Express for Moosonee pulls into the station at Cochrane.

With around 3 feet of snowfall overnight, the southbound Amtrak Vermonter was the first train operating over the New England Central Palmer Subdivision on Sunday, March 24. Led by Phase II Herita... (more)

Stainless Steel Speedliner. Baltimore & Ohio RDC-2 no. 1961 is seen outside the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD on the afternoon of March 23, 2024. This unit was one of two RDC-2 c... (more)

On its way to Los Angeles for promotional purposes, British Columbia "Royal Hudson" 2860 (ex-Canadian Pacific 2860) rounds the famed Tehachapi Loop as it climbs up and over the Tehachapi... (more)

The Empire Builder pauses for the conductor to engage the electric switch at the west end of the Minnesota Commercial yard area at St. Anthony Junction in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Recent snow and w... (more)

The fifteen-stall Lenzen Roundhouse was originally built in 1899 to serve the standard gauge San Jose-San Francisco rail commuter line and the narrow gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad, replacing ... (more)

The "Palmetto" with a meet on double track. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

A leased LTEX SW9 shuffles scrap gons at the Midwest Steel & Alloy scrapyard in Youngstown, Ohio located alongside the CSX New Castle Subdivision. The crew has just run these two cars over the rai... (more)