The silence of Grand Canyon National Park's dense forest is broken as the sharp barks of steam locomotive stacks fill the air. On the point of this morning's 13-car, Train No. 2 is GCRY 29 and 496... (more)

With UP 4014 put away for the day, UPY 730 sets to work spoting the different pieces of the steam special's equipment around the railroad's West Chicago Provo Training Center grounds. As this take... (more)

CDTX 2009 is away from home rails as it calls on Amtrak's Los Angeles mechanical shop forces to give it a nose job following a collision with a truck in the Central Valley.

AMTK 42 poses in the afternoon light with Redondo turntable stall mate 795 as a northbound Surfliner crosses over the flyover with its next stop of Los Angeles Union Station.

Shortly before curving out of view on the approach to Tunnel 9, BNSF 3777 is captured leading a westbound Z downgrade on the snow covered, world-famous Tehachapi Loop on the first day of the new y... (more)

With the change in direction beneath the Ross Island bridge complete just a few minutes ago, SP 4449 leads the Holiday Express back toward Oaks Park with another sold out train of happy families e... (more)

After bringing four cars laden with lumber down the Airbase Branch, BUGX 1322 brings one of the loaded center-beams north to spot it for unloading at the Hayward Lumber yard. After running around ... (more)

With a load of happy children and their parents aboard, the last run of the Candy Cane Express for the day departs Lebanon for a trip down part of the Santiam Branch.

The Sun Will Soon Set For Pacific Surfliner F59's As a passing storm system continues to blow over Southern California, the clouds briefly part and allow a diluted sunlight to spill onto th... (more)

The "Sonoma," an 1876-built 4-4-0 that was owned and operated by the North Pacific Coast narrow guage railroad, gleams under the lights of the California State Railroad Museum with an in... (more)

Things feel "just right" in this 2018 scene as a black-widow painted EMD SD9 sends up a plume of exhaust and the engineer brings the throttle back another notch as the Candy Cane Express... (more)

Northbound Pacific Surfliner 583 curves to the north as it crosses the Redondo Flyover on its final approach to Los Angeles. In the foreground, another Pacific Surfliner is swtiching out cars from... (more)

It's a beautiful, spring day on Cuesta Pass as the sound of two General Electric locomotives straining to pull a heavy train upgrade echoes off the hillsides. The louder than normal chugging of tw... (more)

With the last half of its train still snaking through Bealville, BNSF 3741 leads this afternoon's edition of the RICBAR out of Tunnel 3 and toward Cliff.

Amtrak's detouring northbound Coast Starlight twists and turns between Russ and Ravenna as the long distance train climbs through the ex-Southern Pacific Soledad Canyon. Part of the original North... (more)