A four-engine set of Union Pacific diesels pass the UP’s 4th Street Yard, head north on Metrolink’s River Subdivision East Bank Line as they run along the Los Angeles River to the UP’s East ... (more)

Conductor Walters and Engineer Cox have plenty of time to get their train, BNSF Q-NYCLAC6-08L, to the next crew change point, as it is just fifteen miles ahead and they still have 3 hours and 40 m... (more)

BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-08L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal, New York NY to Los Angeles CA), with run-through Norfolk Southern power (ES44AC 8104 in Heritage paint for the old Lehigh Valley Railroad a... (more)

BNSF train S-PEASCO3-10, an Intermodal Stack heading to Long Beach CA from Pearland TX, rounds the curve at the west end of Ludlow, on the railway’s Needles Sub. This train is led by an ES44C4 ... (more)

BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-08L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal, New York NY to Los Angeles CA), with run-through Norfolk Southern power (ES44AC 8104 in Heritage paint for the old Lehigh Valley Railroad a... (more)

In the early 1970s, the Santa Fe Railway expanded their yard in Barstow, in southern California’s Mojave Desert, by extending it – basically building a whole new yard – west of the original ... (more)

After stopping to allow hot BNSF train Z-NBYWSP9-14U to thread its way around eastbound BNSF S-LBELPC1-13 and westbound Q-ALTLAC1-12, engineer JM Rossi is accelerating BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5505 gets t... (more)

Racing across the Mojave Desert in 107ºF (41.67ºC) heat is BNSF Railway train Q-NYCLAC6-08L, running nearly 84 hours behind schedule (thanks to a derailment in Missouri), with an all-Norfolk Sou... (more)

BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-08L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal, New York NY to Los Angeles CA) is running nearly 84 hours behind schedule as it rounds the curve at Milepost 694 on the BNSF’s Needles Su... (more)

From 1902 until 1968, the Southern Pacific and Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific combined to operate the Golden State Limited. Connecting Chicago with Los Angeles, this train’s route was, f... (more)

Metrolink train 689 (Irvine to Los Angeles) makes its stop in Fullerton just after sunset on a cool winter day. SCAX 855, the F59PH shoving this train, will serve Metrolink for just another seven... (more)

Switching tank cars full of ethanol delivered to the refinery area near the ports of LA and Long Beach are Railserve Inc. GP10 430 (ex-IAIS 430, ex-IAIS 8030, ex-ICG 8030, née-IC GP9 9030) and GP... (more)

Union Pacific SD40-2 3111 was built by EMD in June 1979 as Missouri Pacific 6043. After the UP and MP merged in December 1982, this engine was eventually repainted as UP 3943, later being renumb... (more)

A westbound BNSF intermodal train rolls through Basta, the location where Union Pacific’s Anaheim Branch crossed the Santa Fe’s Third District, which these venerable cantilever signals protect... (more)

A heavy snowfall hit the mountains of southern California on January 28, 1979. Snow was falling in much of the San Gabriel Valley (I saw flakes falling in Pomona) and in the city of San Bernardin... (more)