For decades the Denver & Rio Grande Western operated a Ski Train every winter, ferrying ski enthusiasts up into the Rocky Mountains despite how bad the weather might be. Today, this train is stil... (more)

For its 40th Anniversary, Amtrak put together a display train to tour the system. This train consisted of NPCU 406 (former F40PHR 406), Dash 8-40BP 822 (one of the carrier’s engines painted in ... (more)

BNSF train BNSF S-LPCLBT1-08 passes under the Los Angeles Metro’s A Line (formerly the Blue Line) trackage as it heads to the Port of Long Beach to complete its run from Chicago. This intermoda... (more)

It's "Pi Day"!

Just minutes out of the Anaheim station, Metrolink train 600 (Los Angeles to Oceanside), behind F125 938, rounds the curve at Control Point Maple as the train app... (more)

Between Oceanside and Escondido, San Diego County’s North County Transit District operates a transit service named "Sprinter," utilizing a fleet of 12 "married pairs" of Siemens VT642 "Desiro" D... (more)

The city of Fowler, located ten miles south of Fresno in California’s San Joaquin Valley, is a fairly typical agricultural area typical of so many in the Valley. This area has a large number of... (more)

Sitting near Union Pacific’s Dolores Yard is UP ES44AC 7605, painted for General Electric to promote the builder’s Green Locomotive technology. This locomotive is still on UP’s roster, but ... (more)

Improvised helpers on the Hill As a Southern Pacific eastbound, powered by SP U33C 8771, U33C 8635, SD45T-2 9212 and SD45 8928, stalled while climbing over the Tehachapi Mountains when ... (more)

A westbound Kansas City Southern grain train snakes through downtown Kansas City on the Kansas City Terminal’s East-West Corridor behind a pair of ES44ACs – 4680 and 4687. KCT’s East-West C... (more)

Having just crossed the Santa Ana River, and in the process also crossing eastward from Anaheim to Orange, Union Pacific train LOA32, the local heading from West Anaheim Yard to southern Santa Ana... (more)

Union Pacific train LOA32, the local heading from West Anaheim Yard to southern Santa Ana, has just passed under the 57 Freeway and is passing through the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermoda... (more)

Union Pacific train LOA32, the local heading from West Anaheim Yard to southern Santa Ana, crosses Interstate 5 as it departs the yard. UP GP40P-2 1375 and GP60 1083 are about the travel down Ana... (more)

As Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 765 speeds by at 70 miles per hour, heading from San Diego to Goleta, the cormorants on the power lines pay it no mind. This could be because the 50 or so passe... (more)

Originally a Santa Fe F9A, 282C, this locomotive was rebuilt by the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe’s Cleburne TX Shops into a "round roof" CF7 (ATSF 2520) in May 1974, later getting rebuil... (more)

Working out of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe’s La Mirada Yard is ATSF CF7 2520. Originally ATSF F9A 282C, this locomotive was rebuilt by the Santa Fe’s Cleburne TX Shops into a "round r... (more)