BNSF Railway train Z-WSPSBD3-05A, a Willow Springs IL to San Bernardino CA Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train, exits the west end of Truxton Canyon in northwestern Arizona. BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4183, ... (more)

Washington’s Union Station can be a busy place, with Amtrak, MARC and Virginia Railway Express trains both utilizing the facility. On the left is Amtrak train 176, which has just cutoff its P42... (more)

The old Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe passenger station in Flagstaff is an icon in the town, and is still in use for the two Amtrak passenger trains, the eastbound and westbound Southwest Chiefsmore)

Looming in the distance are the San Francisco Peaks, a volcanic mountain range in north-central Arizona's San Francisco volcanic field. These are a remnant the former San Francisco Mountain, now ... (more)

BNSF Railway train S-LPCLBE1-03L, with Norfolk Southern AC44C6M 4060 (ex-NS Dash 9-40C 8865) and BNSF ES44C4 8139 up front (and BNSF ES44C4 8204 as the rear Distributed Power Unit) providing the m... (more)

Exiting the west end of Crozier Canyon is BNSF Railway train Z-WSPSBD3-05A, a Willow Springs IL to San Bernardino CA Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train. BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4183, ES44C4 6782, ES44C4 ... (more)

Running late, as usual these past few years, Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, heading to Los Angeles from Chicago, departs Flagstaff at 11:25 pm (23:25), 1 hour 47 minutes behind sc... (more)

Union Pacific Costa Mesa Local LOA32 heads south on Metrolink’s Orange Sub, on which it operates from Anaheim to Santa Ana, at which point it switches back to UP trackage. UP GP60 1083 (ex-UP 1... (more)

BNSF Railway's train Q-NYCLAC has, more often than not, Norfolk Southern power on it. Thus, even without confirmation of this train's symbol at the time, I was 98% sure it was the Q-NYCLAC. BNSF... (more)

Cooling its heals …. er … wheels in beautiful downtown Hackberry is a trainload of ballast headed for Franconia, Arizona. Eastbound BNSF train U-PPHFXX5-28B, with BNSF ES44DC 7862 and GECX Da... (more)

BNSF Railway's Transcon doesn’t really cross the whole North American continent, but it crosses at least two-thirds of it. And this train, BNSF Q-CHISTO3-30, is making that journey, having orig... (more)

At one time, the Southern Pacific operated a line further east on Anaheim's Santa Ana Branch, operating down the center of Santa Ana Street, than it did not long before the Union Pacific acquired ... (more)

Winding its way through Cajon Pass' Mormon Rocks is BNSF Railway intermodal train S-HOUSCO5-04. BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5459 is leading a trio of Norfolk Southern Dash 9-44CWs (NS 9459, NS 9786 and NS 9... (more)

Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana was the Mexican railroad owned by Kansas City Southern and later renamed Kansas City Southern de México. But for a while, TFM’s locomotives were painted in ... (more)

National Railway Equipment built a whopping total of one GS14B "Truck Engine Switcher" (TES), Union Pacific Y2005 (numbered for the year is was built), powered by a pair of Cummins 700hp... (more)