While Santa Fe train 891, the eastbound Super C, spent a few minutes cutting out a troublesome diesel while in Barstow, I had the time to take detail photos of the various markings on ATSF ... (more)

A pair of BNSF trains are occupying two departure tracks in Union Pacific’s West Colton Yard. BNSF H-WCLBAR1-04, a manifest freight with some coal loads up front, behind ET44C4 3682, sits next ... (more)

Twenty minutes behind a westbound with Kansas City Southern power on it, is BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-29L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal... (more)

Santa Fe’s hot intermodal train, the eastbound Super C (symboled as 891), makes a very brief stop in Fullerton to pick up a "suit," as some managers used this train to quickly move betwee... (more)

Speeding through the passenger station in Fullerton is Santa Fe train 891, the eastbound Super C. Known as the "World's Fastest Freight Train," the Super C was an all-piggyback trai... (more)

Kansas City Southern ES44AC 4470, teamed with BNSF ES44DC 7792, is hustling BNSF train Q-PEALAC1-30A (a 59 car, 4783 ton, 5767-foot Guaranteed Service Intermodal train heading from Pearland TX to ... (more)

The Southern California Railroad Museum (formerly the Orange Empire Railroad Museum) has assembled a nice collection of diesel locomotives that have been nicely restored. Two of them are Union Pa... (more)

As the sun drops behind the Berkshire Mountains to the west, Pan Am Railways train EDBF snakes out of the East Deerfield Yard to begin its run to Bellows Falls, Vermont. Maine Central SD40 600 (e... (more)

Under unusually cloudy skies for southern California in June*, Metrolink train 683, heading from Irvine to Los Angeles, passes the old citrus packing houses along the carrier’s Orange Sub behind... (more)

A very clean Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 508 switches autoracks at the carrier’s southern terminus for its Auto Train on a hot, humid morning. (Sanford, Florida – August 7, 2017)

Passing under the pedestrian overpass at Metrolink’s West Corona station is BNSF Railway train Z-NYCLAC9-14, a Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train heading from New York NY to Los Angeles CA. BNSF... (more)

This is the longest Amtrak passenger train I’ve seen in years!

Four P42DC locomotives (172, 189, 10 and 163) are pulling sixteenth cars (sleepers 32059 and 32025, diner 38031, lo... (more)

Union Pacific local LOA32 makes its way south on Southern California Regional Rail Authority’s (Metrolink) Orange Sub, which it hopped on in Anaheim and will diverge off of in Santa Ana in order... (more)

The Belt Railway of Chicago’s Clearing Yard was a great place to find a wide variety of motive power from various railroads, and in Autumn of 1997 An eclectic mix of diesels was found there: A ... (more)

BNSF ES44DC 7309 leads Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-LACNYC9-10 through the Fullerton Transportation Center as it makes its way from Los Angeles CA to New York NY. (The second engine in the... (more)