A Southern Pacific freight heads east along the "beautiful" Los Angeles River on the Union Pacific's Los Angeles Sub, which it uses to head south ("railroad east") through this part of downtown Lo... (more)

A trio of switchers await the call to duty at the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's Hobart Yard, not far from downtown Los Angeles. These three SW9s – ATSF 2423, 2425 and 2428 – are among ... (more)

Holding at West Daggett is BNSF Railway train U-RAVWAT7-12A, a unit train of tank cars full of ethanol, heading for the BNSF's Watson Yard, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and near a... (more)

Shortly after sunrise, BNSF intermodal train S-LHWLPC1-16, heading from Los Angeles Harbor’s West Basin to Logistics Park in Chicago, departs Seligman on the Transcon after making a crew change.... (more)

BNSF Railway Intermodal Stacks train S-FRESCO1-13A rolls under the West Daggett signal bridge as it approaches Barstow on its way from Fremont NE to Long Beach CA. With just 72 loaded cars, this ... (more)

Speeding at 75 miles per hour (120.7 km/h) through Arizona's Mohave County on a gloomy December morning is BNSF Railway Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-WSPSTO7-16A. BNSF ET44C4 3742, SD70ACe ... (more)

A Chinese National Railway passenger train heads west through Yuexiu, Baiyun, Guangzhou, with an SS8 electric locomotive, number 0193. The SS8s were built by CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Works... (more)

A pair of GATX MP15DCs sit in Santa Fe's Fallbrook Junction Yard. These two locomotives were built in December 1974 as Reading Company 2771 and 2772, which became Conrail 9621 and 9622 in that 19... (more)

Approaching the 6 Line’s Elder Avenue station in the Bronx is a southbound Pelham Bay Park Express, comprised of R62A cars (with NYCT 1676 leading). This train originated at Pelham Bay Park and... (more)

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train, with a pair of Santa Fe GP7u locomotives (ATSF 2183 and 2124), brings six office cars of varying heritage through Santa Fe Junction and across the state line ... (more)

Eight days after a 10 hour 19 minute late Amtrak 3, another Amtrak 3 heads west, but is only 6 hours and 1 minute behind schedule on this day. It was, of course, for the same reason: One of the ... (more)

Cajon, the site of the old Santa Fe station in the heart of Cajon Pass, sits at the 3,100 foot (945 meters) elevation, and the snow is not usually very deep here. But on occasion, it can get pret... (more)

Union Pacific 4-8-4 844 leads a short passenger train around Sullivan's Curve in southern California's Cajon Pass under skies that were threatening rain. The cold temperatures, however, provided ... (more)

Metrolink San Bernardino Line train 353 hustles past the BNSF power stationed at Kaiser. Train 353 is heading from San Bernardino to Los Angeles, with F59PH 882 up front, and MP36PH-3C 900 on the... (more)

BNSF train D-BARLAC3-30I, a movement of light engines (BNSF ES44DC 7889, ES44C4 6941, Dash 9-44CW 5500, ES44AC 6167, ES44C4 6733 and ES44C4 6949) traveling from Barstow to Los Angeles, makes a bri... (more)