A CSX crew working on the diamonds takes a brief break to allow an Iowa Interstate train, crossing the Calumet Sag Channel on the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal (also known as the Indiana Harbo... (more)

Parked at Milepost 7 on the BNSF Railway’s Cajon Sub is train Q-LACLPC6-23 (Guaranteed Service Intermodal; Los Angeles CA to Logistics Park Chicago IL). On this day, we saw 13 trains (and, we s... (more)

Rounding the curve at Esperanza on BNSF Railway’s San Bernardino Sub is BNSF train Q-NYCLAC3-21A, heading to Los Angeles from New York NY. It is not unusual for this train to have a solid set o... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-NSABAR6-20, a Guaranteed Service Intermodal train operating from Norfolk Southern’s Ashland Avenue Yard in Chicago, Illinois, to Barstow, California, has arrived at the east... (more)

The rising sun glints off the side of BNSF Railway train Q-NSABAR6-20, a Guaranteed Service Intermodal train operating from Norfolk Southern’s Ashland Avenue Yard in Chicago, Illinois, to Barsto... (more)

A young fisherman casts his line into the Batiquitos Lagoon as Coaster train 656 crosses the trestle over the lagoon as it heads south to San Diego. Coast commuter trains, operated by the North C... (more)

Canadian Pacific SD70ACU 6644 wears the camouflage colors applied to Royal Canadian Air Force "Spitfire" fighter planes flown at the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.... (more)

Heading from Anaheim to Santa Ana is Union Pacific local LOA32, heading south on Southern California Regional Rail Authority’s (Metrolink) Orange Sub, which it hopped on in Anaheim and will dive... (more)

Hugging the coastline as it heads south to San Diego is Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 768, which originated in Goleta, near Santa Barbara. Cruising along the Pacific Ocean at milepost 206, this... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division constructed only three GP40P-2 locomotives, all for the Southern Pacific (SP 3197-3199) for use on their commuter trains on the San Francisco Peninsula. The... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-NYCLAC6-16L holds Track 2 while it awaits an open track at Hobart Yard, just south of downtown Los Angeles – its eastbound counterpart (the Q-LACNYC) was due to depart Hobar... (more)

Ten-year-old Southern Pacific 7201 lays over at the railroad's Dolores Yard. Built by EMD in February 1978, this GP40X originally featured "elephant ears" over its flared radiators in o... (more)

The American Freedom train arrived in southern California on December 22, 1975, and the train was on display at the Los Angeles County Fair Grounds from the 23rd until the 30th. In the midst of A... (more)

Union Pacific train LOA32 (the "Marlboro") heads east down Santa Ana Street in Anaheim, approaching the Anaheim Boulevard intersection. This was the location, on the right, of the South... (more)

Two-month-old Union Pacific ES44AC 2520 was spotted on the Dolores Industrial Lead after arriving at the railroad’s Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF) in Long Beach. After dropping o... (more)