541 miles into its 2222 mile journey from Los Angeles CA to Chicago IL, three Santa Fe engines (two F45s – ATSF 5933 and another – and an F7B – plus a steam generator car) lead Amtrak 4, the... (more)

As the eastern sky begins to glow, the volunteers for the BNSF California Division’s annual Christmas Train will soon begin arriving for a fun day of keeping underprivileged families entertained... (more)

A New Jersey Transit train arrives at Hoboken Terminal late in the day, with NJTR PL42AC 4026 shoving on the rear. From this vantage point the new World Trade Center can be seen under constructio... (more)

Metrolink F59PH 852 leads train 859, Inland Empire-Orange County service heading from San Bernardino to Oceanside, through the crossover from northbound Track 1 to southbound Track 2 at CP Maple, ... (more)

Nearly seven years after receiving the red and yellow colors of the proposed Southern Pacific Santa Fe merger, Southern Pacific SD45R 7564 is showing some wear and tear when found in Dolores Yard ... (more)

Rolling along California's Central Coast is Amtrak train 14, the westbound Coast Starlight heading from Los Angeles to Seattle. On this first day of 1994, the train is powered by 10% of th... (more)

Four F-Units (AMTK FP7 110, SP FP7 6456, AMTK F7B 161, AMTK FP7 120) from Amtrak train 1, the westbound Sunset Limited, have cut off the train after delivering it to Los Angeles Union Stati... (more)

Switching covered hoppers at Cemex S.A.B. de C.V.'s La Mirada Cement Terminal is a Wabtec Nordco Shuttlewagon Commander, model SWX525. If it has a number, I was unable to see it. (La Mirada, Cal... (more)

An Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe eastbound piggyback train passes by the old Santa Fe (now Amtrak) passenger station in Fullerton. ATSF SD45 5506 (ex-ATSF 1806, built in June 1966), featuring a shat... (more)

BNSF Railway train S-LPCLBJ1-05A stays on the railway San Bernardino Sub at Atwood, where the old Santa Fe line split to head to San Diego. But today, it is Metrolink's Olive Sub that diverges he... (more)

Union Pacific GP40P-2 1375, the former Southern Pacific 7602, originally SP 3199) is one of just three GP40P-2s built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division – all for the SP. Purchased as pa... (more)

Idling away in the Union Pacific’s former Western Pacific yard in Oakland are UP SD40-2 3373 (built 3/77) and UP SD40-2 3916 (ex-MP 6016; née-MP 3232; built 8/76). Before long, these locomotiv... (more)

Following the delivery of a large number of South Korean-built cars from Hyundai-Rotem, Metrolink trains became, visually, a jumbled mess. Locomotives could be painted in one of three paint schem... (more)

Southern Pacific GP9 3403 (ex-SP subsidiary Texas & New Orleans 403) and GP9E 3370 (ex-SP GP9 3556, née-TNO 434) back into an industrial complex to drop off some box cars as SP's Huntington Be... (more)

Rounding the superelevated curve on the wye at CP Maple, where Metrolink's Orange and Olive subs connect, is Union Pacific's Coast Mesa local, train LOA32. Normally operated with back-to-back Gee... (more)