Navigating through the S-curve at Fullerton Junction (where Metrolink's Orange Sub diverts from BNSF's San Bernardino Sub) is BNSF Railway train Z-LACWSP7-18A, moving 73 loaded intermodal cars fro... (more)

After pulling into the station in Agen, the engineer of a westbound Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) Intercités regional passenger train, led by an Alstom Z 5... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific Railway freight crosses the Kansas River on the upper deck of the Highline Bridge. UP ES44ACs 8018 and 7399 (with a third ES44AC, 7464, as the rear DPU) is crossing from... (more)

If you like old warehouses and other industrial (and repurposed) buildings? Head to Kansas City’s West Bottoms area, where Union Pacific SD70Ms 4996 and 5107, departing Armourdale Yard across t... (more)

A high load on a depressed-center flat car is transported in a short Santa Fe train, led by GP303211 (ex-ATSF 1211). The two tank cars may be there as buffer cars. (La Mirada California – Augu... (more)

Kansas City Terminal Railway is a Class III terminal railroad, which operates 85 miles of track in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Operated by the Kaw River Railroad, the KCT no longer owns an... (more)

Pi Day in the Wasatch

Photographed at Pi time on Pi Day - Shot on 3/14/15 at 9:26 (3.1415926) ... Well, close enough, anyway, as my camera said it was 9:27 and James Belmont's sa... (more)

Arriving at Los Angeles Union Station 1 hour 12 minutes behind schedule (because it arrived in San Luis Obispo 1 hour and 5 minutes late) is Amtrak train 11, the southbound Coast Starlight.... (more)

As storm clouds gather, a westbound Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railnet train, led by HLCX SD40 5004 (which the NKCR is leasing), rumbles across an old trestle on the railroad's St. Francis Line as t... (more)

Rolling at train speed, 60 mph (for passenger trains) is BNSF Railway Officer Special O-LACSBD8-06A. BNSF ET44C4 7939 can handle this 10-car train easily as it heads 62 miles from Los Angeles ... (more)

Amtrak GP38 723, getting some work done in the carrier's Wilmington Maintenance Facility, was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Louisville & Nashville GP38 4003 in June 1970, this... (more)

After three days of rain and snow, a small lake has appeared at the east end of Cajon, between Track 1 (not visible here) and Track 2. Descending Track 2 is BNSF Railway "High Priority Merch... (more)

My wife used to work with someone who came from the eastern US, and after the San Gabriel Mountains would get some snow, on a clear day he would say, "It looks like we live somewhere." And as we ... (more)

Snow is falling at Cajon (elevation 3,116-feet), but at Summit (seven miles away, but at 3,775-feet altitude) the sun is out. While snow this heavy at Cajon is not unheard of, it only occurs ever... (more)

A massive snowstorm in the mountains of southern California is preventing a view into the valleys of Cajon Pass, where it is snowing. But here, at the summit of the BNSF Railway’s crossing of t... (more)