Southern Pacific SW1500 2468 passes the Union Pacific’s mission-style station in Anaheim, California. This SP train, operating on the UP, will shortly cross Lincoln Boulevard and, as it does so, w... (more)

A Union Pacific local sits in the center median of Torrance Boulevard as its cars are unloaded on May 30, 2008. This is the Union Pacific's Torrance Industrial Lead, originally part of the sprawl... (more)

Union Pacific AC4400CW 6302 is the former Southern Pacific 376. (Anaheim, California - February 8, 2020)

As Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 578 departs Fullerton, California, on Track 3, the conductor seems transfixed by something off to the train’s right side. Meanwhile, some BNSF employees are ins... (more)

BNSF Railway Officer Special O-SDGLAC3-06A departs Fullerton, California, after dropping off its passengers there. The train originated in San Diego, and will now continue to Commerce, near downt... (more)

A commuter rushes to catch her train (Metrolink train 609, Oceanside to Los Angeles) on a Friday evening, and in the process finds an exception to the "better late than never" rule. As ... (more)

BNSF Railway train Z-SBDALT9-20L climbs Cajon Pass as it passes through Blue Cut. This UPS-LTL intermodal train, headed from San Bernardino to Alliance, Texas, is powered by BNSF ES44C4 6937, BNS... (more)

Idling away in the small Providence & Worcester yard in Middletown, Connecticut, on the morning of January 27, 2020, is a GP15-1 belonging to leasing company Larry’s Truck and Electric – LTEX 1413... (more)

CT rail train 1616 heads east (railroad north) on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor in Branford, Connecticut, on a cold January 23, 2019. This “Shore Line East” commuter train, heading from New Haven t... (more)

CT rail train 1626 arrives on Track 2 in Branford, Connecticut. CDOT cab car 1713 (built by Mafersa S.A., and purchased from Virginia Railway Express) on January 23, 2019. On the rear of this 3-... (more)

And That’s a Wrap! is what I would have titled this photo if this did, in fact, turn out to be the final day that Amtrak ACS-64 606 were to operate in this special Coca-Cola wrap. But, lit... (more)

Los Angeles’ version of Chicago’s Sears Tower?

Rising in the background is a Los Angeles landmark since 1926 - the Sears, Roebuck & Company building in the city’s Boyle Heights... (more)

Cotton Belt GP60 9638 was found in the Southern Pacific’s Dolores Yard, in Carson, California, on March 5, 1997.

On display at the 75th Anniversary Open House at General Motors Electro-Motive Division’s plant in Illinois is Janesville & Southern (a fictional railroad) 52, a BL-2. Built by EMD in March 1942 ... (more)

Santa Fe SD40-2 5023 was but two months old when photographed on the point of an eastbound freight in Fullerton, California, in January 1978. This engine has a 123" long nose in order to hou... (more)