East Meets West … And They Are Both Late

Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief (behind P42DCs 23 and 163), has just arrived on Track 3 at the Fullerton Transportat... (more)

They're Baaaack!

After spending a few weeks working on a maintenance-of-way train, supposedly retired 29-year-old F59PH 868 is back in passenger service! Metrolink train 812 ... (more)

A pair of BNSF Dash 9-44CWs, 5305 (built in June 2001) and 4808 (built in July 1998, and wrecked in Jackson MS in July 2005) lead an automobile train downgrade through Blue Cut, in the lower reach... (more)

Paired locomotives on Metrolink trains is usually rare, but in this case F125 904 is so new, despite its low number, that it has been teamed with 908 for break-in runs. Both engines were built in... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific 3GS21B genset locomotives, UPY 2743 and 2740, have backed the animal cars from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train under the 57 Freeway and down the railroa... (more)

Straddling the city line between Santa Fe Springs (Santa Fe Springs, which is Spanish meaning "holy faith," was first applied to mineral springs purchased by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa... (more)

BNSF ES44AC 6022, one of the railway’s ten 25th Anniversary engines, leads 7285-foot train S-ALTLHA1-14 (Alliance TX to Los Angeles Harbor Pier 400) westward through … um … uh … well, cr... (more)

A large part of New York MTA’s BMT Brighton Line through Brooklyn is in the open, although still below grade and, therefore, still technically a subway. A B Sixth Avenue Express enters a brief ... (more)

A Q Train, with the usual assortment of Kawasaki R68A cars (with 5058 leading) rounds the curve as it approaches the Parkside Station on the former IND Brighton Line. This train originated in Man... (more)

After riding a G Train in the MTA's new image, I hopped off at the Smith-9th Streets Station in the hope of perhaps finding another new-scheme train heading south. Seconds after getting set up, I... (more)

Some twenty years after the orange Q bullet was discontinued (it was used for Sixth Avenue service from 1988-2001), it inexplicably showed up on R68A car 5114, leading a New York City subway 2nd A... (more)

CP Rail S-3 6518, spotted on the Canadian Pacific yard in Vancouver, was only 26-years-old when photographed in 1979. Note former Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 "Royal Hudson" 2860 stored behin... (more)

Operating on Hong Kong Island between Kennedy Town and Shau Kei Wan (with a branch circulating through Happy Valley, is a 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow-gauge tram system. Hong Kong Tramways (ཛྷ... (more)

In this view of Glasgow’s Queen Street station (Sràid na Banrighinn) a First ScotRail (SPT) 170 class diesel multiple-unit Turbostar 170 428 can be seen on track 4. These DMUs were cons... (more)

BNSF Railway local R-CAL0151-29I, the "San-Jac Roadswitcher," has completed their work in eastern Riverside (railroad "east," that is, on the north side of the city) and the po... (more)