A typical set of power awaiting its next assignment at Union Pacific's Dolores Industrial Lead: UP ES44AC 7752, UP SD70M 4913. UP ES44AC 7702, Norfolk Southern SD70M-2 2673, NS Dash 9-40C 8817 an... (more)

Awaiting its next call to duty at Union Pacific Railroad’s Dolores Yard is Kansas City Southern Railway ES44AC 4767. After 2½ years of service, this locomotive (built in November 2011) still l... (more)

A fine-looking quartet of Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad diesels sit in their small facility in Scottdale in … wait for it … southwest Pennsylvania. SWP "GP40-3" 4006 is ex-KCS GP4... (more)

Cumberland Mine SD38-2 22, working a coal train (which is all it does) with CMYX 1, is former Yankeetown Docks 22. This operation is now owned by Iron Senergy.

Once the mined coal has ... (more)

Union Pacific GP38-2 609 was built in June 1980 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Southern Pacific 4842, and UP SW1500 Y1136 was built by EMD in November 1969 as SP 2552. (Carson Calif... (more)

A set of locomotives moves through the New York Susquehanna & Western Railway's MC Yard to couple onto a train. Three leased CIT Group locomotives lead (CEFX SD40 3108, SD40-2 3126 and SD402 3131... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Intermodal Stacks train S-LBTCHI1-20A, with one of those colorful consists that made early BNSF trains so interesting, climbs the western side of Cajon Pass as... (more)

That's a Lot of Signals!

The old searchlight signals are on their last legs as newer tri-color signals have been installed at Kansas City Terminal's North-South Corridor ... (more)

Thanks to Metrolink train 606 breaking down in Santa Fe Springs, and Metrolink train 608 also stopping there to pick up 606's passengers, Metrolink train 712 (91/Perris Valley Line; Los Angeles to... (more)

Rolling south through the verdant San Joaquin Valley (using less than 1% of U.S. farmland, the San Joaquin Valley supplies 8% of U.S. agricultural output (by value) and produces one-quarter of the... (more)

Decked out if Metrolink's least attractive paint scheme, 32-year-old F59PH 868, one of only two F59PHs still operating on the system, pushes Orange County Line train 609 (Oceanside to Los Angeles)... (more)

A Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) train has arrived in Washington DC from Baltimore, with MP36PH-3C 24 and GP39H-2 74 (ex-B&O GP40 3710) for power on the rear. (Washington DC – January 22, 2... (more)

Departing the station in Orange, and about to diverge from Metrolink's Orange Sub to their Olive Sub (and then onto BNSF’s San Bernardino Sub) is train 802. This train, consisting of F125 931 a... (more)

Angels Flight, a downtown Los Angeles landmark, is an historic 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge funicular railway in the city's Bunker Hill district. It operates two funicular cars, named "Oli... (more)

Running at 60 mph is Metrolink 91/Perris Valley Line train 700, with F125 922 pulling 4 cars. This train departed Los Angeles 40 minutes earlier, and it due to arrive in downtown Riverside in ano... (more)