The power off one of Union Pacific Railway's Anaheim Haulers, which bring cars from West Colton Yard to West Anaheim Yard, sits under a crescent moon on the wye after having delivered its t... (more)

Bringing up the rear of BNSF Railway train U-CPFFCL0-08T, a 100-car train of covered hoppers carrying sand heading – slowly – from Ottumwa IA to Fort Collins CO. ("Slowly" because t... (more)

Sitting in Western Pacific’s Middle Harbor Yard, considered the westernmost part of the WP system (because the WP’s San Francisco trackage was only accessible by ferry) is the power off, most ... (more)

Four SDP40Fs are on the headend of train 3, the westbound Southwest Limited, because this train is delivering new locomotive 587, built in May 1974, which will be assigned to Amtrak trains ... (more)

Climbing out of California’s San Joaquin Valley is a Southern Pacific freight with SP SD40T-2 8505, SP SD40 7328, Cotton Belt SD45 8973 and an SD45T-2 providing the muscle to defy gravity and ge... (more)

Union Pacific DD35A 70 is teamed with an SD40-2 and two SD40s to bring a freight into Los Angeles. (Pomona, California – July 20, 1975)

Intermodal, 1970s Style!

A westbound Southern Pacific intermodal train, full of those "long" 40' containers (two per 89' flat!) has just crossed the Santa Fe's Third District. T... (more)

An eight-car Bay Area Rapid Transit train stops at the El Cerrito Plaza Station, and will shortly depart for Richmond. BART C1 car 347 leads this train, The C1s were built by Alstom from 1987-19... (more)

Southern Pacific MP15DC 2690 was rebuilt by National Railway Equipment into a "Truck Engine Switcher" (TES), or GS14B. A pair of Cummins 700hp truck engines are under the hoods of this ... (more)

Holding Track 2 (of three mainlines) as it awaits an opening at Los Angeles' Hobart Yard, and also awaiting a fresh crew as permission to proceed its final 16 miles, is BNSF Guaranteed Service Int... (more)

Union Pacific SD70ACe 8875 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division June 2014, just two months prior to this photograph. (Compton, California – August 15, 2014)

Navigating the S-curves at Frost, ironically located in the Mojave Desert, is BNSF Guaranteed Service Intermodal train Q-ALTSBD6-19, ferrying hundreds of shipping containers from Alliance, Texas, ... (more)

While checking out the location of the Pacific Harbor Line's former enginehouse at their now-gone Pier A Yard, a pair of NRE 3GS21B locomotives, PHL 30 and 31, were found crossing Alameda Street w... (more)

Late trains keep getting later…Amtrak 3, the Southwest Chief, making its way west, was only 34 minutes behind schedule when it departed Gallup NM the day before, but by the time it... (more)

BNSF Railway train C-SCMCEC1-43, hauling coal from Montana's Spring Creek Mine to Centralia, Washington, emerges from the 416-foot Blum Tunnel on BNSF's Fallbridge Sub on a crisp autumn day. BNSF... (more)