Cooling its heals …. er … wheels in beautiful downtown Hackberry is a trainload of ballast headed for Franconia, Arizona. Eastbound BNSF train U-PPHFXX5-28B, with BNSF ES44DC 7862 and GECX Da... (more)

BNSF Railway's Transcon doesn’t really cross the whole North American continent, but it crosses at least two-thirds of it. And this train, BNSF Q-CHISTO3-30, is making that journey, having orig... (more)

At one time, the Southern Pacific operated a line further east on Anaheim's Santa Ana Branch, operating down the center of Santa Ana Street, than it did not long before the Union Pacific acquired ... (more)

Winding its way through Cajon Pass' Mormon Rocks is BNSF Railway intermodal train S-HOUSCO5-04. BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5459 is leading a trio of Norfolk Southern Dash 9-44CWs (NS 9459, NS 9786 and NS 9... (more)

Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana was the Mexican railroad owned by Kansas City Southern and later renamed Kansas City Southern de México. But for a while, TFM’s locomotives were painted in ... (more)

National Railway Equipment built a whopping total of one GS14B "Truck Engine Switcher" (TES), Union Pacific Y2005 (numbered for the year is was built), powered by a pair of Cummins 700hp... (more)

Rolling into Pacific Harbor Lines' Pier A Yard in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington are a pair of EMD 6-axle diesels: Locomotive Leasing Partners SD38-2 2808 (the former Reserve Mining 1... (more)

In late 2013, the reacquisition of Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 by the Railroad from the RailGiants Museum in Pomona, California. Of the eight "Big Boys" preserved around the ... (more)

Union Pacific SD40-2 3462, with interestingly mis-matched numberboards, is teamed with a former Southern Pacific SD40T-2 and another SD40-2 to bring a local, train LRS97-12, into Stockton from Ros... (more)

Heading east out of CSX Transportation’s Barr Yard is an ethanol train powered by Canadian Pacific AC4400CW 9657 and Norfolk Southern Dash 9-40CW 9727. (Dolton, Illinois – November 7, 2018)

Speeding through the North Elizabeth NJ Transit station is Amtrak train 125, a Northeast Regional heading west (compass south) from New York City’s Penn Station to Norfolk, Virginia. An ... (more)

Sitting on the wye in Union Pacific’s West Anaheim Yard are the two locomotives that arrived from West Colton Yard with a "Hauler," which delivered cars to be distributed by locals ser... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad's Davidson Yard features several sets of power working the hump yard at one time, as the yard is that large. One of those sets on this day was UP "snoot" S... (more)

Amtrak train 3, the Southwest Chief, sits in Los Angeles Union Station after arriving from Chicago. Amtrak P42DC 123 is the lead locomotive, teamed with P42DC 66 – fitting, since this tr... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division constructed 63 GP60Ms, all for the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe. They were the first new locomotives delivered in the Santa Fe's then-new "Superfleet&quo... (more)