With sweet low winter lighting, I decided to take an anti-drone photo from a low perspective. That, or I’m just a klutz who had fallen and could not get up, but had my camera at the ready … a... (more)

The New York City MTA subway station at Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn is built on a curve, and it creates a nice variation from the stations on tangent track. NYCT R160 car 9858 leads a G Lin... (more)

I stumbled upon this train as it was approaching the station in Orange, and was surprised to see it as daytime freights on the old Santa Fe 4th District, dubbed the "Surf Line," (today M... (more)

A pair of Metra commuter trains operating on their BNSF Line have arrived at the western-most point of their trip, and will be departing soon to head back to downtown Chicago. METX F40PHM-2 191 a... (more)

Hard at work assembling trains at the Indiana Harbor Belt’s Blue Island Yard are IHB SW1500 1505 (ex-IHB 9222, née-EMDX 109) and GP40-2L 4022 (ex-Canadian National 9554). These engines look sh... (more)

With the morning's fog burned off, Union Pacific local LOA32 makes its way from Anaheim’s West Anaheim Yard to Santa Ana with UP GP40P-2 1375 and GP60 1083 pulling sixteen cars. As it does so, ... (more)

Metra train 512, weekend service from downtown Chicago to Elburn, rolls into the Villa Park station on the Union Pacific/West Line. METX F40PH 148, named Village of Fox Lake, was built by ... (more)

As Southern Pacific C415s 2409 and 2405 are bringing a freight out of Anaheim, they meet SP SW8 1123 and its C-40-3 class cupola caboose some five miles into their trip to City of Industry*. (Bue... (more)

The first big storm of the season hit southern California the day before, but it wasn’t quite cold enough to drop much snow on the San Gabriel Mountains – but a little is better than none. BN... (more)

It is only 3:54 pm (15:54), but the sun is already low in the sky, and will set in another hour. Still, it is all good, as Pacific Harbor Line local YPSW14-27 rarely switches the Weyerhaeuser Lum... (more)

It was a busy afternoon at Metrolink’s station in Orange due to a fatal trespasser strike in Santa Ana, which closed the line for over three hours. At 3:39 pm (15:39), Metrolink train 663 (Ocea... (more)

Wisconsin Central SD45 7505 is the former WC 6505, originally BN 6505. (Schiller Park, Illinois - September 20, 1997)

As a late autumn storm moves out, Metrolink train 806 rolls in. Metrolink F125 930 leads this Inland Empire-Orange County Line train, which originated in Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo and is headed... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train Q-LACWSP1-24 passes under the signal bridge at May, on the railway’s San Bernardino Sub. BNSF Dash 9-44CW 777, SD75I 8274 and Dash 9-44CW 1037 are lea... (more)

A trio of SD40-2s, or what Union Pacific now calls "SD40N"s, work a cut of cars in the railroad’s West Colton Yard: UP 1554 (ex-UP 3225), UP 1609 (ex-UP 3413) and UP 1675 (ex-UP 3254,... (more)