Nearing its crossing of the North Platte River, Union Pacific intermodal train 2ITAG4-12, heading to Global 4 intermodal facility in Joliet, Illinois, from Tacoma, Washington's Port Yard, heads ea... (more)

Union Pacific UPS Expedited Intermodal train ZG2BR-22 winds through the fields and heads into the setting sun as it makes its way from Proviso, Illinois' Global 2 to Brooklyn, Oregon (essentially ... (more)

Union Pacific SD40-2 1947 hauls three tank cars to the north end of the small yard in Mason City IA. Now classed as an SD40N by UP, this locomotive was built as UP SD40-2 3195 in August 1972. UP... (more)

A pair of BNSF Geeps – GP60 161 (previously BNSF 8702, originally ATSF 4002) and GP60M 126 (formerly ATSF 126) – are getting prepped for use on the railway's Third La Mirada local, as a crewma... (more)

Making its way from San Diego to the Santa Barbara suburb of Goleta is Amtrak train 765. This six-car train has a pair of California Department of Transportation (CDTX) Siemens "Chargers&quo... (more)

Rolling eastward across the expansive prairies, having just crossed from Colorado into Nebraska, is BNSF Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-DENCHC3-25U, ferrying trailers and containers from Denv... (more)

On a hot afternoon (92º F / 33.333ºC, with 58% humidity) storm clouds have built up over the San Gabriel Mountains. The problem, of course, is lightning, which could possibly start new fires in... (more)

Having returned to McCook Yard for the day, BNSF Railway "GP39-3" 2548 (built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in March 1963 as Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe GP30 1221, which was l... (more)

Moving another trainload (135-cars) of coal out of the Powder River Basin, BNSF SD70ACe locomotives 9327 and 8537 (with two more SD70ACes - 8406 and 8594 - on the rear) split the signals in Anselm... (more)

North Meets South … Train 800 Meets Train 600 … 907 Meets 935 … (OK, that last one is more than a bit lame … Sorry about that …)

Meeting at the Metrolink station... (more)

The KLW SE24B is a low-emissions diesel switcher locomotive built by Knoxville Locomotive Works, powered by a single MTU Series 4000 12V R54 (TIER 3) diesel engine which develops a total power out... (more)

An RTD-Denver A Line train, with Silverliner V 4035 leading, arrives at the city’s 61st & Peña Station, not far from the Denver International Airport. These electric trains connect DIA with Un... (more)

The Iowa Traction Railway Company (reporting mark IATR) is a class III common carrier shortline railroad, operating 10.4 miles (16.7 km) of track connecting Mason City and Clear Lake, Iowa. Howev... (more)

Built by Baldwin-Westinghouse in May 1921 as Northeast Oklahoma Railroad 2, this 50-Ton Steeplecab electric locomotive was later owned by Cedar Rapids and Iowa City as their number 40. It passed ... (more)

Highballing along their Hastings Subdivision is BNSF High Priority Merchandise train H-DENLIN1-18A, heading for Lincoln NE from Denver CO. This train has a bit of an eclectic consist, thanks to s... (more)