Amtrak purchased 207 General Electric P42DC locomotives, and the last of them leads a Pacific Surfliner through CP Maple in Orange, California, on August 14, 2019. This train, number 566, ... (more)

BNSF local L-CAL0081-12, the Second La Mirada, switches cars at Future Foam in Fullerton, California, on August 12, 2009. This ... (more)

Passing through Placentia, California, is BNSF Railway train Q-AUGLAC6-07, a Guaranteed Service Intermodal train heading west from Austell GA to Los Angeles, about 24 miles ahead. This train is 9... (more)

Canadian National SD60 5476 is undergoing routine maintenance at the CN's Woodcrest Shops in Homewood, Illinois, on September 30, 2018. This locomotive was built by EMD in December 1986 as Oakway... (more)

Canadian National Railway's Woodcrest Shops (formerly Illinois Central) includes a transfer table inside the shop building. This is the only transfer table I have ever seen that is within a shop ... (more)

In the cavernous confines of Canadian National's Woodcrest Shops, Illinois Central SD70 1017 blends in with the interior darkness of the truck and traction motor department. Built by EMD in Octob... (more)

Built by General Motors Diesel (on London, Ontario) as Canadian National GP9 4276 in January 1956, this locomotive was rebuilt in May 1995 into a "GP9RM" and renumbered to CN 7082 (and r... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe operated a fleet of 28 ALCO PA-1 passenger diesels (and 16 PB-1 diesels). In 1967, as the PAs were beginning to be replaced with new FP45s, U28CGs and U30CGs, four of S... (more)

A pair of Ferrocarril Sonora–Baja California diesels switch cars in the SBC's rail yard in Mexicali, Baja California, on November 14, 1981. A pair of SBC GP40-2s, two-year-old 2309 and high-nosed... (more)

An Indiana Harbor Belt freight rattles across the diamonds at the crossing in Dolton, Illinois, on September 30, 2018. IHB GP40-2 4016 (ex-Southern Pacific 7613) and GP38-2 3802 (ex-Altos Hornos ... (more)

Built by EMD in October 1995, Illinois Central SD70 1009 was delivered in the IC's black "Death Star" paint scheme. When Canadian National Railway purchased the IC in 1998, the roster b... (more)

Sitting in the deadline at Canadian National Railway's Woodcrest Shops is Illinois Central SW14 1506. This locomotive is the former Illinois Central Gulf SW14 1506, and was rebuilt into an SW14 b... (more)

Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners are now firmly in the charge of Siemens SC-44 "Charger" locomotives, as evidenced by CDTX 2112 on the point of train 580 at the Anaheim Regional Transp... (more)

Tickets are checked as passengers board the "Pacific Business Class Coach" on Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train 580. Car 6804 is named for "more)

As Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 584 departs the Fullerton, California, train station it crosses from BNSF Railway's San Bernardino Subdivision (on which Amtrak NPCU 90208 is rolling) to Metroli... (more)