There was a lot of interesting equipment in the San Luis & Rio Grande's yard in Alamosa when I visited. On the left is a former Southern Pacific caboose, Railroad Passenger Car Numbering Bureau (... (more)

Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington 9, a 24" gauge 0-4-4, recently completed an extensive rebuild that lasted nearly a decade. This little steam engine is showing off as a result, with a high... (more)

(1) As CTDOT train 1541/1741 departs the Harlem-125th Street Station, heading for Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal from New Canaan, Connecticut. CNDX M8 9713, a Kawasaki-built EMU, leads the tr... (more)

Passing the old Southern Pacific passenger station in Martinez is Amtrak train 546. This eastbound Capitol Corridor train has just departed the newer Amtrak station in town, with CDTX F59P... (more)

ATSF Dash 9-44CW 616 and Dash 8-40CW 865, running light, head west to Los Angeles. These two Santa Fe diesels have yet to be marked with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway reporting marks, as t... (more)

As Amtrak train 56, the Washington DC to Saint Albans, Vermont Vermonter, pauses for its electric locomotive (and one coach) to be removed (AMTK ACS-63 626, on the right) and swapped for a ... (more)

Having stopped at the station in Fullerton for a red block, Santa Fe's "Bandini Turn" smokes it up as the caboose hop accelerates once the clear signal appears. A pair of B36-7 diesels (7489 and ... (more)

Santa Fe had visions of a company museum, and was wise enough to hang onto a variety of locomotives with that in mind. It never happened, of course, and the collection was donated to the Californ... (more)

As BNSF Guaranteed Service Intermodal train Q-LPCLAC6-30A heads to Los Angeles from Chicago, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 564 heads east/south from Los Angeles to Irvine. (Only to Irvine, and ... (more)

Union Pacific SD40-2 1592 (marked as a "D40-2" on the cab) sits in the snow at Hoffman Yard, awaiting its next call to duty. Built by EMD in December 1979 as Union Pacific 3645. (Saint... (more)

The mainline between Los Angeles and San Diego is once again severed, thanks to yet another landslide in San Clemente. As a result, the trains operating south of there have unusual numbers, as ex... (more)

Perhaps it came west to escape the cold. Norfolk Southern's Pennsylvania Railroad Heritage unit, ES44AC 8102, threads its way through the reverse curves at Siberia, in California's Mojave Desert,... (more)

"Just" 10 hours 5 minutes behind schedule is Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief. Passing through Fullerton Junction, at the eastern end of the Fullerton Transpo... (more)

While exploring Indiana Railroad’s Hiawatha Yard, with permission, of course, a short northbound freight passed by with their 25th Anniversary locomotive on the point. Indiana Railroad SD90MAC ... (more)

A westbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight train passes the Fullerton station behind SD45 5508 (ex-ATSF 1808), mated with an F45, an SD26 and another SD45. (Fullerton, California – ... (more)