After my arrival I was thrilled to be living near famous Cajon Pass. This WB mixed freight is one of the first of many pictures or fine railfanning day, even with a ubiquitous -2.

Soaking up some sun in Kansas City Southern's Knoche Yard is Iowa Chicago & Eastern SD40-2 6400, the City of Sanborn. This locomotive was originally Union Pacific 3562, built by EMD in Mar... (more)

Several patched diesels sit in Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway’s Watson Yard, in Los Angeles’ Wilmington neighborhood. BNSF SD40-2 7847 was built in July 1978 (27 years earlier) as Color... (more)

It's Throwback Sunday at the BNSF engine servicing facility, with two former Santa Fe Warbonnets and a Cascade Green Burlington Northern SD40-2 waiting for service or orders.

CSXT 8365 and 8181 slow train L010 to a stop just outside of Norwood Central. After a commuter train passes, the train will continue on to Walpole and then Framingham before returning to Readville... (more)

CSX Y102 gets six axle power for once in March, 2014. CSXT 8814 is an EMD SD8814 built as Conrail (CR) 6393 in 1977.

A CWR train passes some early spring blossoms on its run down the Etowah Sub.

SD40-2 #713 and ES44C4 #804 pull a late Unit Train through Delray Beach.

UP 1638 returning to Kearney after working Green Plains Wood River.

If you look back thru history, you will find FEC has traditionally gone thru some kind of power shake-up in the Jan-Feb timeframe. In this case, they put all of their SD40-2 on lease to CSXT, pri... (more)

I'll say it again....we didn't know how good we had it. This was so common, it was taken for granted....10 years later, it might as well be a photo charter.

With FEC going thru the changes again, it's really something to look back in very recent history to see how good we had it. Not only is it a trio of EMD SD40-2, it's "all yellow"....and... (more)

WLE train 237, a Brewster to Willard train, comes around the curve at Clark Road, just south of Wellington, Ohio.

EMD SD40-2 No. 9551 on the CHS terminal line, appears to be contemplating the sunset ending another day's work.

A quiet Saturday morning that still has some patchy fog hanging in the air finds a three-person crew performing some switching moves alongside the Blandin paper mill near downtown Grand Rapids, MN... (more)