A pair of inbound trains race each other to New York City's Grand Central Terminal early in the morning. On the left, on Track 1, is Connecticut Department of Transportation train 3505, a New Hav... (more)

Amtrak's "Phase I Heritage" unit, P42DC 156, sits in Washington DC's Union Station. By June 2021 this locomotive was im storage, replaced by P42DC 161, which got repainted in the Phase ... (more)

Metrolink train 624, heading to Oceanside from Los Angeles; approaches the station in the city of Orange, with F125 910 for power. (Orange, California – April 7, 2025)

After sitting on Track 1 at the Metrolink station for an hour, BNSF train F-T216-1-07T, consisting of a pair of locomotives (BNSF 5159 up front, and ET44C4 3740 on the rear) with just one car betw... (more)

San Diego-bound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 566 has P42DC 198 on the point (rather than the usual SC-44), and its six cars are also a bit unusual, as only half are technically Surfliner... (more)

Appearing to be an N-scale model on HO trucks is American Electric Power 1101, one of two GE SL144 switchers built. (Withers' "Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide" refers to them as mode... (more)

Union Pacific GP38-2s 826 and 833, power for locals, sit in Lexington. These two locomotives were built one month apart in 1981 for the Missouri Pacific (UP 826 was originally MP 2326 and UP 833 ... (more)

BNSF Railway train E-CSSBTM017A heads west back to Wyoming's Black Thunder Mine from Stratton, Ohio. A trio of SD70MACs power this train: BNSF 9545 (ex-BN 9545), 9760 and 9506 (ex-BN 9506). more)

A Union Pacific eastbound departs North Platte's Bailey Yard on a summer's morning. This is a scene repeated several times per hour all day long on the UP's incredibly busy Kearny Sub across the ... (more)

Dwarfed by the massive Farmland Service Co-op grain elevator in Gothenburg is the engine that services it – M. Ryan Railway Service Contractors "SD20" 1021. Built in January 1960 as S... (more)

On March 24, BNSF and the US Department of Transportation operated a train from Los Angeles to San Diego, returning on March 25, to evaluate the trackage. Nearly two weeks later, that train made ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliners make the trip from San Diego to Los Angeles in 3 hours, and this train (BNSF train F-T216-2-24T, a "Foreign Train operating on BNSF Track", comprised of ... (more)

As BNSF train F-T216-2-24T ("Foreign Train operating on BNSF Track", pulling this Department of Transportation test car, DOTX 216, from San Diego to Los Angeles), arrived in Fullerton, a... (more)

At 13:03 (1:03 pm), Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, rolls into the Fullerton station 5 hours 6 minute late. the last stop before arriving in Los Angeles from Chicago. Twenty... (more)

Union Pacific's 8-car Costa Mesa Local, which hasn't served Costa Mesa in decades, heads south on Metrolink's Orange Sub, on which it has trackage rights from Control Point (CP) College (na... (more)