Even without any paint or lettering, there is no mistaking a Southern Pacific diesel! The Headlight/Gyralight/Emergency Light arrangement and the numberboards on the hood give SP SW1200 2280 that... (more)

Amtrak train 5, the westbound San Francisco Zephyr, has just arrived at Oakland’s 16th Street Station, completing its journey from Chicago. Amtrak dome-lounge 9372 was originally Souther... (more)

The Modesto & Empire Traction's locomotive facility has a variety of locomotives this morning, with (left to right) MET RP20BD 2005, MET RP20BD 2644 (ex-Oakland Terminal Railway 2644, originally U... (more)

Union Pacific E8A 931 and two B-Units lead train 103, the westbound City of Los Angeles, as it makes its final station stop, at the railroad's East Los Angeles station, before ending its tr... (more)

Rounding Fullerton Junction's S-curve and about to pass through the Fullerton Transportation Center (more commonly known as the Fullerton Amtrak and Metrolink station) is BNSF Railway train S-LPKL... (more)

Orange, California, as the name implies, was a hub of activity in the citrus industry's heyday. (Ironically, the city was not named for the fruit, but rather after the city of the same name in Ne... (more)

Private cars on the rear of a late Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief.. (Yorba Linda, California – July 22. 2023)

Amtrak train 3 (Yorba Linda, California – July 22, 2023)

Gadsden Industrial Park, a former steel mill, has a small industrial rail operation, serviced by at least five locomotives. GIP 5 is one of those, a General Electric 40-ton diesel. (Gadsden, Ala... (more)

Speeding through the station in Edison NJ is Amtrak train 98, the northbound (well, here on the Northeast Corridor, eastbound) Silver Meteor (Miami FL to New York NY) which, obviously, does... (more)

Found on a siding loaded with what appears to be a high/wide load in Asea Brown Boveri depressed-center flat car ABWX 20002. This car was built National Steel Car in February 1981. (Huntsville, ... (more)

There is a lot going on here:

On Track 2, in the center, BNSF Railway train S-LHTLPC1-24A, an Intermodal Stacks train heading from Los Angeles Harbor's TICTF to Logistics Park near Ch... (more)

Union Pacific's Dolores Yard often gets off-line motive power off of transcontinental trains that end their runs here, due to the yard's proximity to the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. One ... (more)

This BNSF train, S-LPKLBE1-11L, originated in Kansas City KS' Logistics Park and is close to wrapping up its run to Long Beach CA. It may be a BNSF Railway train, but three of its four locomotive... (more)

Stretching for 13,859 feet (2.625 miles) behind the power, BNSF Railway intermodal stack train S-LBPLPC1-12L originated in Long Beach, California's Pacific Container Terminal (PCT) and it headed f... (more)