Southern Pacific's Marlboro Local was down to just one car as it headed east down Anaheim’s Santa Ana Street on a gloomy April day. But, this job's day is just beginning, and there will be cars... (more)

When running down the center of city streets, a railroad cannot make a turn as sharply as the other vehicles on the street. Here we see Union Pacific train LOA32 making a right turn off of Anahei... (more)

Power from the Union Pacific "Anaheim Hauler" lays over on the wye in Anaheim before heading back to West Colton Yard. Facing the camera is UP SD60 2179, built in April 1986 as UP 6024.... (more)

Union Pacific train LOA32 (the "Marlboro") runs down Olive Street in downtown Anaheim as it makes its way to the city of Santa Ana. A pair of UP Geeps, GP40-2 1400 (ex-Cotton Belt 7645)... (more)

Passing through the intersection of Santa Ana and Lemon Streets in downtown Anaheim is a Union Pacific train, LOA32 (the "Marlboro") headed to the city of Santa Ana. UP GP40-2 1400 (ex-... (more)

BNSF 1618, a 1955-built GP9 still wearing its original Burlington Northern colors, catches some Southern California rays as it waits for its future to be decided.

Union Pacific GP40-2 1400 is the former Cotton Belt 7645. (Anaheim, California – June 6, 2020)

BNSF 8597 leads an eastbound Schnable special on Metrolink rails as it crosses the Santa Ana River on the Olive Subdivision.

A schnabel car move crosses the Santa Ana River into Anaheim. The J-SDGDAG9 consists of two locomotives, an equipment flat, caboose, spacer, the schnabel car itself, another spacer and caboose. It... (more)

When Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, departed Chicago, it had the usual five-car reduced consist due to the COVID-19 pandemic: Engines 42 and 41, sleeper 32097, dining car 38034, ... (more)

A Southern Pacific local, heading east on Santa Ana Street in Anaheim, California, has come to an abrupt stop as it went into "emergency." The unscheduled stop will not take long before... (more)

At 8:00 pm (20:00) on April 9, 2020, landmarks all over the United States were illuminated blue in a nationwide effort to honor the health-care workers and others on the front lines of the COVID-1... (more)

Amtrak train 593, the last northbound Pacific Surfliner of the day (thanks to reduced schedules during the COVID-19 pandemic) makes its stop just before 9:00 pm (21:00) in Anaheim, Californ... (more)

Union Pacific GP40-2 1469, built as Cotton Belt 7637, sits by itself in UP’s West Anaheim Yard on March 17, 2020. Perhaps this engine was self-isolating to avoid COVID-19. (Anaheim, California... (more)

A trio of EMD diesels is parked at the Union Pacific’s West Anaheim Yard on February 16, 2020. UPY GP15-1 550 (ex-C&NW 4405), UP GP40-2 1469 (ex-SSW 7637) and UP GP40-2 1413 (ex-SP 7662, and st... (more)