Two "Fun Facts"!

Passing the Fullerton Transportation Center (the old Santa Fe station, built in 1930, now serving Amtrak and Metrolink) is BNSF Railway's UPS Expedited In... (more)

Completed in 1902 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Rockville Bridge is, at 3,820 feet (1,160 m), the longest stone masonry arch railroad viaduct ever built. The bridge crosses the Susquehanna Ri... (more)

Union Pacific GP35 762 is an interesting locomotive. Recently repainted in North Platte NE (on September 18, 1974), this locomotive was not purchased new from builder EMD. Built as EMD Demonstra... (more)

Arriving at Los Angeles Union Station, appropriately enough on Track 11, is Amtrak train 11, the southbound Coast Starlight. On this trip, Amtrak had difficulty producing two locomotives f... (more)

Union Pacific GP35 743 awaits its next call-to-duty on a local out of Colton. The Geep was built in May 1964 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division. (Colton, California – July 20, 1975)

For the last ten miles, since Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe GP30 3250 (ex-ATSF 1250) and four GP35s departed San Bernardino, this train has been steadily climbing the ATSF First District's 2.2% grade... (more)

Arriving at Los Angeles Union Station, appropriately enough on Track 11, is Amtrak train 11, the southbound Coast Starlight. On this trip, Amtrak had difficulty producing two locomotives f... (more)

Look, Ma! No Fuel Tank!

EMDX SD40J 50, a Joule Battery Electric Locomotive built on the frame of an SD40-2 by Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. in Brazil, switches autoracks ... (more)

Reading Company RS-3 467, built by the American Locomotive Company in May 1952, was sold to the Peabody Coal Company. It was later purchased – and restored – by the Reading Historical Society.... (more)

An eastbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train of empty autoracks, with ATSF U36C 8784 leading a mix of GE and EMD locomotives, rounds the well-known curve leading to Cajon Pass' Summit. (Cajon Pa... (more)

Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is seen passing through Esperanza in Santa Ana Canyon with P42DC 203, the carrier's Operation Lifesaver (https://oli.org/) locomotive, on the headen... (more)

Climbing up and over southern California's Beaumont Hill, the Union Pacific's Yuma Sub features a number of S-curves, particularly on the west side. An extremely wet winter has left San Timoteo C... (more)

Forty-Three Years Ago at SP's West Colton Yard Late in the afternoon, a Southern Pacific freight passes local landmark Slover Mountain as arrives at the railroad's West Colton Yar... (more)

Forty Years Ago at UP's East Yard

For as long as I can remember (which, for the record, is back to about 1968 in regard to the Union Pacific Railroad), the UP has been the... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 583 passes through Fullerton on Track 2 in order to avoid a police investigation of a fatal train/trespasser strike two miles ahead at Basta. This train arrived fr... (more)