BNSF Railway train V-PEASDG4-12 (Vehicles, Pearland TX to San Diego CA) rolls through Rose Canyon, having just conquered the steepest grade (2.2%) on the Los Angeles to San Diego line – Miramar Hi... (more)

Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners are so named because for much of their trip through southern California, they skirt the Pacific Ocean. The bluffs in Del Mar, not too far north of San Diego, pr... (more)

All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray… At the corner of 7th and Townsend in downtown San Francisco, California, was the Southern Pacific’s modest facility for servicing th... (more)

The Rock Island Railroad ceased operation on March 31, 1980, yet in May 1985, some five years later, the Union Pacific was storing some RI power (and some Western Pacific power as well) in North L... (more)

Southern Railway’s train 6, the northbound Piedmont, prepares to depart Charlotte, North Carolina, on a gloomy July 3, 1976. A pair of FP7s, SOU 6146 and 6143, were easily able to handle t... (more)

Found in the Jackson, Tennessee’s Iselin Yard is Illinois Central Gulf SW14 1497. Built by EMD in July 1951 as Illinois Central SW9 9459, this end-cab switcher was renumbered ICG 459 following th... (more)

Running short-hood first, contrary to the way the control stand is set up. But, while Southern's hood diesels were set up as "long hood forward," they were considered to be bi-directional). Sout... (more)

Deadheading from Pines Spur (at milepost 249.6) to the Amtrak station in downtown San Diego is BNSF Officer Special O-OCDSDG1-06. For this southbound move, the train is led by ES44DC 7716 and ET4... (more)

Skirting the Pacific Ocean, Amtrak train 572 is living up to its Pacific Surfliner name as it skirts the beach along the expensive real estate of the Del Mar Bluffs. Amtrak P42DC 172, a Ju... (more)

Deadheading from Pines Spur (at milepost 249.6) to the Amtrak station in downtown San Diego is BNSF Officer Special O-OCDSDG1-06. For this southbound move, the train is led by ES44DC 7716 and ET4... (more)

It is nearing 1:45 pm, at which time Northwestern Pacific train 4, the northbound Redwood, will depart Willits, California, to head for Eureka, some 144 miles ahead. The train, consisting ... (more)

A string of Seaboard System locomotives in the yard in Hamlet, North Carolina, includes B23-7 3102 (ex-Seaboard Coast Line 5102), GP16 4794 (ex-SCL 4794, ex-SCL GP7 760, nee-ACL 172), GP38-2 6058 ... (more)

A trio of Southern Railway E8As lead the railway’s flagship train, the Southern Crescent, as it makes its way from New Orleans LA to Washington DC. Train 2 is seen at the passenger station... (more)

Frost, just south of downtown Victorville (which is hidden behind the rocky hills on the other side of the trees along the Mojave River) is a unique place in railroading. It was here, on a plain ... (more)

Amtrak Lincoln Service train 302 makes a stop in Springfield, Illinois, on January 14, 2019, to pick up northbound passengers. The train, pulled by Illinois DOT SC-44 4622, originated in S... (more)