Amtrak train 11, the Coast Starlight, will be departing Seattle's King Street Station at 11:20 am, beginning its southbound 1,364-mile run to Los Angeles CA. Two consecutively numbers SDP4... (more)

Seaboard System SDP35 4595, seen at the yard in Hamlet NC with SBD SD35 4590, was built by EMD in November 1964 as Seaboard Air Line 1114. When the SAL merged with the Atlantic Coast Line, it bec... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division built only 21 GP39 locomotives, with 20 of them going to the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. (The only other was built for Florida's Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Ra... (more)

Western Maryland Railway F7A 235 holds the mainline while a set of power (WM GP40 3799, F7A 66, RS-2 184 and an SD35) rolls by heading into the Hagerstown Yard. (Hagerstown, Maryland – Septembe... (more)

Amtrak train 9, the westbound North Coast Hiawatha, makes a station stop in Livingston on a cold and snowy December day. The power for this train, SDP40Fs 531 and 576, has been "blue ... (more)

St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad 119 is a GP15-1 locomotive, built in September 1977 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division. (Fort Smith, Arkansas – December 17, 1980) Douglas G. Walker p... (more)

Thirteen-month-old Missouri Pacific GP15-1 1686 was photographed just six months after the MoPac was absorbed into the Union Pacific. While this locomotive is technically a UP possession in this ... (more)

On the American Bicentennial, Amtrak train 5, the San Francisco Zephyr, departs downtown Chicago’s Union Station for a trip to Oakland, California. AMTK SDP40Fs 622 and 627, built two ye... (more)

Seaboard Coast Line C30-7 7053, constructed in March 1980, is the second C30-7 built for the railroad without a signal light between the numberboards. Instead, SCL 7052 through 7061, L&N 7062-706... (more)

On America’s 200th Birthday, Amtrak’s train 40, the eastbound Broadway Limited, departs downtown Chicago for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the train will be split, with one section co... (more)

Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac train Extra 123 South crawls out of the railroad’s "Pot Yard" (the nickname for their Potomac Yard) behind a pair of GP40s (123 and 122) and a GP40-... (more)

BNSF Railway Officer Special O-SDGSDG9-22 is returning to San Diego after a run to Oceanside earlier in the morning. This train, passing through Rose Canyon as it descends Miramar Hill, has a pai... (more)

A special BNSF Railway train, symbolled O-SDGSDG9-22, crosses the Los Penasquitos Lagoon as it approaches the Pacific Ocean on its way from San Diego to Oceanside … and back to San Diego. This ... (more)

Skirting the Pacific Ocean between rain cells is BNSF Railway train O-LACSDG1-21A is about done with its deadhead trip from Los Angeles (actually, Commerce, a few miles southeast of downtown LA) t... (more)

BNSF Railway's freights to San Diego normally run after dark, but due to some maintenance being performed overnight, the freights have been operating during the day for a few weeks. Today's train... (more)