National Steel Corporation Weirton Steel Division (WSX) SW1500 306 switches cars at their facility. Built by EMD in January 1971 as Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 9288, this switcher was later renumbered... (more)

The Bullion Mountains form a backdrop as BNSF train H-BELBAR1-12 makes its way from Belen, New Mexico, to Barstow, California. A quartet of contemporary General Electric diesels (ES44C4 8189, ES4... (more)

A Norfolk Southern transfer, heading along the Fort Wayne Line to nearby Conway Yard, rolls through suburban Pittsburgh behind NS 5900, one of the railroad’s two GP22ECO slug masters. Created f... (more)

BNSF train Z-AUGSBD7-18 (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal, Austell GA to San Bernardino CA) traverses an S-curve as it utilizes the “natural crossover” that the Santa Fe built at Frost, a mile sout... (more)

There are just 47 miles left to go in BNSF train H-SDGBAR1-20’s 200ish-mile trip from the beaches of San Diego to high desert of Barstow. Today’s High Priority Merchandise train is powered by... (more)

A BNSF Railway Dash 9-44CW, 4654, appears to need some time in the shops as it belches smokes as it heads to Los Angeles. The other locomotives on this priority intermodal train, Z-LPKLAC9-19, wh... (more)

The San Bernardino Mountains are shrouded in clouds, creating a chilly backdrop as Union Pacific expedited intermodal train ZLADV01 21 heads east, bound for Denver from Los Angeles. This train ha... (more)

All trains originating at Southern Pacific’s West Colton Yard depart eastbound, and westbound trains, such as this LA Basin “Hauler,” depart eastbound and use the balloon track to make a 360... (more)

Union Pacific’s Alhambra Sub makes a pair of S-curves – think of a graphed bell curve – to get to West Colton Yard as they pass under the UP’s Mojave Sub just east of the yard. Getting ba... (more)

Four-year-old Union Pacific SD70ACe 8449, combined with SD70M 3980 (the former Southern Pacific 9806) and SD70ACe 8505, bring a manifest across 16th Avenue to the railroad’s Council Bluffs Yard.... (more)

Union Pacific train SYUWC 17 (Special, Yuma AZ to West Colton Yard CA) exists the UP’s Alhambra Sub and enters West Colton Yard to spend the night and perform some maintenance. UP FEF-3 class 4... (more)

California Department of Transportation SC-44 2116, in service on Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliners, is stationed at the passenger station in San Diego, California, as a protection unit. This ... (more)

To get to Union Pacific’s West Colton Yard, westbound trains coming off the railroad’s Yuma Sub pass under the Mojave Sub on a big curve and then swing back to pass the yard on the Alhambra Su... (more)

All trains originating at Union Pacific’s West Colton Yard depart eastbound, and westbound trains, such as MWCLB-09, a manifest heading from West Colton Yard to Long Beach, use the balloon track... (more)

A loaded BNSF grain train, G-BARVEC1-07, sits in the small yard in Victorville just 37 miles from its origination point of Barstow. BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4036, SD70ACe 8520 and ES44DC 7568 (with ET44C... (more)