Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 582 passes through Califia Beach as it skirts the Pacific Ocean, living up to the name Surfliner. F59PHI 460 is pulling this six-car train from Los Angeles ... (more)

Metrolink train 640, the Fullerton to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo shuttle, makes its stop in Orange, California, at sunset on December 10, 2019.

A quartet of light engines has departed BNSF Railway’s Commerce Diesel Facility and is heading east to Porphyry, just east of Corona, California. There, these five locomotives (BNSF ES44C4 6552, ... (more)

Union Pacific SD60 6037 and Chicago & North Western Dash 8-40C 8504 pull a train loaded with Powder River Basin coal eastbound through Bayard, Nebraska, on Union Pacific’s South Morrill Subdivsion... (more)

In early 1978, the Southern Pacific Railroad took delivery of four former SP U25B diesels that had been rebuilt by Morrison-Knudson with Swiss-made Sulzer V12 diesel engines. These four engines a... (more)

The plant switcher at GATX’s tank car facility in Colton, California, is MP14B 7000, constructed in March 2010 by MotivePower Industries on the frame of Southern Ontario Railway SW1200 (an "S... (more)

With their fluted side panels, Metra's F40C diesels were interesting beasts. At Tower B-12 in Franklin Park, Illinois, an inbound North Central Service commuter train is being shoved by F40C 612 ... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande steel cupola caboose 01415 was found in Pueblo, Colorado, on August 28, 1973. This order of cabooses, 01410-01419, was built the Rio Grande’s Burnham Ships in August and Septe... (more)

Grand Trunk Western GP40-2 6406, being serviced at the Belt Railway of Chicago’s Clearing Yard, was built by EMD in October 1972 as Detroit Toledo & Ironton 406. The DT&I was acquired by the GTW ... (more)

Departing south (railroad west) from Union Pacific's North Yard in Salt Lake City, Utah, is UP local LUE46 10. On this afternoon (August 10, 2012), this train has no obvious ties to the Union Pac... (more)

A pair of Santa Fe GP30s round the connector between Santa Fe’s Third District and Southern Pacific’s Sunset Route as they head to SP’s Colton Yard to pick up some freight cars to be interchanged ... (more)

Crossing from Main 2 to Main 1 at Fullerton Junction is BNSF Railway Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-WSPLAC9-20, with a quintet of BNSF General Electric diesels for muscle: ES44DC 7378, ES44D... (more)

Running 24 minutes late (due to a bad accident on this line ten hours earlier) as it arrives at the Fullerton station, Metrolink train 704 is heading from Los Angeles to Irvine. Twenty-five-year-o... (more)

Metrolink’s highest-numbered F59PHI, 887, is handling train 686 (Los Angeles to Irvine), arriving 20 minutes late (and just after sundown) due to a fiery accident ten hours earlier, in which Metro... (more)

Yet another long train of containers is coming out of the Los Angeles Harbor as BNSF Railway train S-LHTCLO1-21 passes through Fullerton Junction, where the BNSF’s San Bernardino Sub (the left and... (more)