Bringing up the rear of an eastbound Southern Pacific freight departing West Colton Yard is SP bay-window caboose 4621. Built by Pacific Car & Foundry in 1978, this was one of fifty C-50-7 class ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 584 accelerates out of the Oceanside Transportation Center and the train departs for San Diego on its trip from Los Angeles. CDTX SC-44 2121 leads this six-car tra... (more)

Sitting just outside the Mid America Car shop complex is freshly overhauled and painted BNSF Railway GP60 197 (ex-BNSF 8739; née-ATSF 4039), built by EMD in August 1989. (Kansas City, Missouri â... (more)

A BNSF Railway light engine movement traverses the shoofly around the construction of the Highland Avenue overpass, which will eliminate yet another grade crossing – the last one in an eight-mil... (more)

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

A Kansas City Terminal train, having just crossed the Kansas River and into Kansas from Missouri on the Highline Bridge, heads to the railroad’s Mill Street Yard behind WAMX SD60M 6033 (wearing ... (more)

Amtrak train 14, the northbound ("westbound" on the Southern Pacific’s Los Angeles Division) makes it stop in San Luis Obispo as it makes its way from Los Angeles to Seattle. A pair of recently... (more)

CP Rail DS-4-4-1000 7072 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Canadian Pacific in October 1948. It was found working in the yards in Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 19, 197... (more)

BNSF Railway train B-CSXLAC6-23 ("B" is for Boring … er … Baretable) hustles its way west from the CSX Interchange (in Chicago) to Los Angeles. A pair of Dash 9-44CWs, 1000 (nearly ... (more)

Union Pacific's Costa Mesa Local normally operates with two GPs, but on this day the second locomotive (GP60 1083) was missing, perhaps sent to West Colton Yard for some routine maintenance. This... (more)

Holding for a clear signal at Santa Fe Junction is BNSF Loaded Unit Coal train C-BKMDOL0-22, heading from Wyoming’s Buckskin Mine to Donie, Texas. A pair of ES44ACs BNSF 5882 and 6408, are on t... (more)

Union Pacific's Costa Mesa Local is underway once again, heading south to Santa Ana with its ten cars, after a delay of nearly an hour trying to get onto Metrolink's Orange Sub at CP Colleg... (more)

The American Bicentennial is just a year off, and Santa Fe’s fifth Bicentennial locomotive, SD45-2 5704, has still not been repainted. By this point, ATSF 5700-5703 were all painted and usually... (more)

One of Kansas City’s downtown streetcars heads down East 5th Street as it makes a loop through the River Market neighborhood before returning down Main Street to Union Station. Each of the city... (more)

Having just completed a meet with a southbound grain train, Kansas City Southern merchandise train MSHKC17, heading from Shreveport LA to Kansas City MO, is just beginning to roll northward again,... (more)