Missing a number board, Amtrak 513 sits at the passenger station in downtown San Diego.

38 years ago today, Santa Fe 5578 leads a westbound hotshot over the bridge just below Tehachapi Loop.

Amtrak's Silver Star rolls south out of the downtown Orlando station past the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey red train.

All is quiet the early morning after Christmas in Sanford. Note the two different lettering styles for the number boards.

UP 3557 goes over the top of its' train on Tehachapi Loop. The four unit helper set has just cleared tunnel 9, and the sound of 7 EMDs and 1 GE U-boat in run 8 was awesome. Back in the day, seei... (more)

An SP manifest grinds up hill in run 8 past the Santa Fe Tunnel 1 on Cajon Pass. The SP and tunnel are now distant memories.

UP 3549 blasts out of Tunnel 1 on Cajon Pass. The tunnel is now gone, and the UP SD40-2s are becoming harder to find.

The NS Geometry heads north towards Jacksonville as it crosses the Crane Creek Bridge in downtown Melbourne. To see a Norfolk Southern pool power unit on the FEC is rare these days, to see two on... (more)

There is no telling what you'll see while watching trains. "Super Chicken" on top of one of the signal towers at the summit on Cajon Pass, January, 1986.

The sun has broken through the clouds as two Railrunner passenger trains prepare to depart from the Santa Fe Depot.

The westbound California Zephyr is about to enter the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel.

Specially painted kodachrome 5394, which is sporting white lettering, yellowbonnet 5400, and kodachrome 5401 rest in San Bernardino yard. Later in the day, these three locomotives would lead a dea... (more)

Recently painted AT&SF 18 coupled to AT&SF 26 at the diesel shops in the Barstow yard.

Santa Fe 3751 is getting closer to being pulled from Viaduct Park in San Bernardino, while another locomotive has arrived on the scene. I do not know much about this steam locomotive, number 42.

Union Pacific helpers 3648 and 3467 are shoving hard on a westbound coal train at the Frost Crossover on Cajon Pass. Underneath the helpers in the distance is the headend of the train as it works ... (more)