Heading east on Norfolk Southern’s Chicago Line is a CSX freight behind a pair of GE ES44ACs: CSXT 5215 and 5220. (Hammond, Indiana – September 24, 2021)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway GP7u 2071 and GP35 2902 sit in San Bernardino’s A Yard. ATSF 2071 was built by EMD in September 1952 as ATSF GP7 2762. It was rebuilt at the railway’s Cleb... (more)

A long, empty Norfolk Southern coal train (NS 431) departs the Savatran transloading facility in Mount Vernon, Indiana, on September 28, 2017. Power for this train is NS SD70ACU 7294, SD9043MAC 7... (more)

The Many Faces of Amtrak

Sitting at Amtrak's 16th Street Diesel Shop is a variety of motive power: On the left is AMTK MP14B 592, and next to that is Illinois Department of Tran... (more)

Racing away from the setting sun is BNSF Railway train S-LHWLPC1-20, a massive double stack train heading from the Los Angeles Harbor's West Basin to Chicago's Logistics Park, with BNSF ES44DC 754... (more)

Union Pacific train LOA32 has just jumped on to Metrolink's Orange Sub as it passes through the Anaheim Regional Intermodal Center (ARTIC, the city's Amtrak, Metrolink and bus depot) as it makes i... (more)

Amtrak train 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, has power that might be more suited to its westbound counterpart, train 3. Amtrak P42DCs 3 and 33 are leading 6-car train 4 on this evening. ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 571 arrives in Santa Ana, California, ninety-two miles north of the train's origination point of San Diego (and just thirty-six miles from the endpoint of Los Angel... (more)

A pair of Santa Fe GPs (GP30 3208 and GP35 3371) work their train at the small yard in Fullerton, just west of the passenger station. ATSF 3208 is the former ATSF 1208, and ATSF 3371 was original... (more)

Bringing up the rear of a Union Pacific weed abatement train is car Habco International car 214. HABX 214's heritage is fairly obvious, although the specific car is hard to pin down. This car, w... (more)

The Union Pacific's Anaheim Branch was in need of a little weed abatement, and the railroad sent a weed sprayer down to Anaheim and back to spray some weed killer along the right-of-way. The trai... (more)

It takes a lot of power to lift heavy trains over the Tehachapi Mountains, as evidenced by the nine locomotives needed to get this Santa Fe eastbound, led by F45 5903. Nine diesels from EMD’s f... (more)

Sitting in Canadian Pacific’s Bensenville Yard are two I&M Rail Link (IMRL) SD45s. The I&M Rail Link, owned by the Washington Companies, operated 1,385 miles of trackage in the states of Illino... (more)

Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is seen at Los Angeles Union Station four minutes after it arrived on Track 13 … and twenty minutes before it was due to arrive at 8:00 am! ... (more)

The morning’s rain has let up just in time for BNSF Railway train U-SBDSDG1-14M (a 50-car unit military train heading from San Bernardino to San Diego) to pass through town without having to act... (more)