It was a warm day, but the heat distortion is caused by the 17,600 horsepower of BNSF ES44DC 7870, Dash 9-44CW 4595, AC4400CW 5658 and ES44C4 7012, combining to pull Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal tr... (more)

Super Bowl Bound

Two-thirds of the entire fleet of Heritage II diesels on the BNSF (at that time) lead a Super Bowl special (O-SBDSDG1-23) to San Diego, at the west end of... (more)

Three of Union Pacific’s six Heritage units, 1988 (Missouri-Kansas-Texas Heritage), 1982 (Missouri Pacific Heritage) and 1989 (Rio Grande Heritage) were found behind the shop building in the rai... (more)

Union Pacific train KAILC 02 (intermodal, Atlanta GA to Los Angeles CA) approaches the railroad’s West Colton Yard in Colton, California, on a hot (98º/36.67ºC) July 5, 2017, afternoon. But t... (more)

Running 30 minutes late, Amtrak train 314 departs from a town in central Missouri behind P42DC 66, belching smoke and temporarily drowning out the music from the town’s Octoberfest celebration, ... (more)

♫ It’s Two … Two … Two Trains in One! ♫*

While this train, BNSF S-FRESCO1-30A, appears to be ordinary, in the third decade of the Twenty-First Centur... (more)

A Santa Fe piggyback train, most likely the 891 (Los Angeles CA to Chicago IL) has just made a crew change in San Bernardino and it once again moving east. A quartet of ATSF Dash 8-40BWs – the ... (more)

At 3:00 pm (15:00) this trainset passed through Orange as Metrolink train 684, an Orange County Line train operating from Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo (Orange County’s "twin c... (more)

Union Pacific GP60 1105, built as Cotton Belt 9648 in September 1989, has completed its run on Friday, and will sit here over the weekend, as its next call to duty will be Monday morning. (Anahei... (more)

Three engines in three paint schemes is always a nice treat! This is BNSF train S-OMASCO1-23A, which originated in Omaha NE and is heading to Long Beach CA, behind ET44C4 3815 (built in April 201... (more)

The power for VIA train 2, the eastbound Canadian, is backing onto their train at Vancouver's Pacific Central Station. Today’s train has VIA FP9 1413 (ex-CP 1413), F9B 1962 (ex-CP 4474, ... (more)

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority operates heavy-rail, light-rail, subway and bus service in the Boston area. Three heavy-rail lines are color-coded (Blue, Orange and Red), as is their l... (more)

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority operates heavy-rail, light-rail, subway and bus service in the Boston area. Three heavy-rail lines are color-coded (Blue, Orange and Red), as is their l... (more)

Mixed in among the nearly constant parade of Intermodal trains on BNSF Railway Needles Sub are a few "loose car" freights. One of these is seen there, as train H-BELBAR 3-12 (a High Priority Merc... (more)

Ordered in 1990 from Morrison-Knudsen and rebuilt from secondhand (thirdhand?) GP40 hulls purchased by M-K, thirty-nine GP40Rs were added to Southern Pacific’s roster as SP 7100-7138. The first... (more)