Cotton Belt 60' flat car 854668, carrying a pair of M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), was built by Greenville Steel Car in April 1969. The Cotton Belt's parent company, Southern Pacifi... (more)

Traveling down the middle of Long Beach Boulevard is Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Agency Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) 1120, built in 2014-2020 by Japan’s Kinki Sharyo. This train is carrying co... (more)

San Diego Metropolitan Transit System 1016, a Siemens Duewag U2 light rail vehicle, passes the classic 95-year-old Santa Fe Depot as it heads "Not in Service" to, most likely, the yard. ... (more)

This is only the fourth Amtrak train 4, the Southwest Chief, to load its initial load of passengers in Fullerton rather than Los Angeles. This was due to a four-day shutdown of the trackag... (more)

BNSF Railway train Z-CHCDEN9-10 (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal; Chicago IL - Denver CO) rushes across Camp Creek. Behind the usual BNSF power (ES44C4 8039, ES44C4 6956, ES44DC 7283 and Dash 9-44CW ... (more)

A pair of westbound BNSF Railway trains descend Cajon Pass, and one overtakes the other at CP Walker. BNSF’s California Division Christmas Train, symboled O-SBDSBD2-12A, heads downgrade after r... (more)

A pair of General Electric demonstrators, GECX 2025 and 2037, sit in the small engine facility in BNSF Railway's San Bernardino A Yard. These test locomotives were either ES44AC, ES44A6, ES44C6 o... (more)

A pair of BNSF Railway Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal "Z Trains" meet at Cajon Pass' Summit. Heading east, and on the left, is train Z-SBDWSP7-26A, heading from San Bernardino CA to Chicag... (more)

In the latter half of 2013 General Electric built a group of EF44AC 4500hp Tier 4 emissions test locomotives, painted blue and sent out to test on several railroads, including (as seen here) Union... (more)

NO TWO ALIKE!

So a GP15-1, GG20GE, GP38, SL-1RCL and SW1500 walk into a bar … er … yard. And besides the variety of models and builders, many of them also have intere... (more)

Retired Santa Fe way car (a caboose for most of us) ATSF 999945 has taken on a second life as a yard office at Kaiser, the yard serving (surprisingly enough) Kaiser Steel Industries in Fontana, on... (more)

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)