It's getting harder and harder to find classic ATSF signals in Southern California these days. This signal bridge in Santa Fe Springs, at Pioneer, remains for now, while a similar bridge was just ... (more)

A PHL Dock Job shoves a mile long string of double stacks onto Terminal Island. The train is running over former Union Pacific ROW on the PHL Manuel Sub. Across the Dominguez Channel is the PHL's ... (more)

A long Watson shuttle shoves cars into Mediterranean Yard as the locomotives pass the Air Products plant along the Dominguez Channel. The train is on the Manuel Sub (former Union Pacific). The tra... (more)

Can you smell the paint on them? Three one-month old GP40X units (can you tell how exited the 16-year-old me was to see them) lead train 168 through Colton Crossing and past Colton Tower on a day ... (more)

A Getty Center tram makes the steep climb up to the world famous museum - as the closest train to my home makes yet another run up the Santa Monica Mountains. This operation looks very much like a... (more)

The Railroad Revival Tour Special pulls onto a stub end track in San Pedro Yard to let the bands off. The bands involved were Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Mumford and Sons, and Old Crow M... (more)

The Pacific Railway Society Special to Bakersfield sports the first Broken Arrow Amtrak I'd seen in many a decade. This was the Amtrak scheme that I first knew. Really wonderful to see it again. T... (more)

The San Bernardino Railroad Days Special returns to Los Angeles, tying up traffic on the San Bernardino Freeway as railfans pace the big Northern, which was unfortunately for the non-railfans, slo... (more)

Moments before Steve Crise would capture this image - here, I shot the train moving through the Del Mar Ave... (more)

Union Pacific's "Dolores Local" shoves up the Manuel Sub out of Mead Yard. Once clear of the junction, it will pull onto the Long Beach Sub (the bridge over the Dominguez Channel by the Tesero Ref... (more)

One of the ubiquitous PHL dock jobs that run around San Pedro, Wilmington and Long Beach with their single locomotive shoving or pulling massive strings of tables with loaded containers, is seen h... (more)

The New York & Greenwood Lake hosts a number of fascinating oldie locomotives in its Dundee Yard engine facility. Besides the GP9 and FA1 in view, there is an SW9 (which happens to be the first lo... (more)

The Rogers Locomotive Works erecting shops in Paterson NJ today serves as both the offices of the Great Falls Historic Preservation and Development Corporation and the Paterson Museum. The museum... (more)

The front truck is being worked on on SMS S12 #300 at Pureland Industrial Park. The ancient Baldwin is a mighty fine looking engine - as are many of the Baldwins that SMS has. It's amazing in 2011... (more)

AF Railway Industries SW1 leads a DS4-4-1000 and S12 in what would be a dream consist, if they were fired up. All three are awaiting mechanical work, I believe, at Pureland Industrial Park. The EM... (more)