A high green signal allows Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 583, with a mix of Amfleet and Horizon Fleet cars, to depart Fullerton as the sun sets in the west. This train, heading to Los Angeles f... (more)

It may look like the Carolinas, but this is actually Alamosa, Colorado. Sitting in the San Luis & Rio Grande yard are Waccamaw Coast Line Railroad F9B 6622 (the WCLR is a shortline in both the Ca... (more)

Tucked into the small yard in Victorville is a local with BNSF ES44C4 8173 (and another GEVO) for power. (Victorville, California – February 15, 2024)

Iowa Interstate GP38-2 was built by EMD in August 1972 as Penn Central 8020. With the formation of Conrail in 1976, this diesel became CR 8020. It was later sold back to EMD, which placed it in ... (more)

Climbing Cajon Pass at milepost 58 is Union Pacific train KLAG1, an intermodal train that may be operating for K-Line out of the port of Los Angeles. Union Pacific SD70M 4842, UP Dash 8-40C 9198,... (more)

Sitting in Victorville, opposite the Amtrak platforms, are a pair of BNSF Railway diesels – Dash 9-44CW 4096 and ES44C4 8203 – assigned to train R-CAL0041-14I, the Victorville Local. The cars... (more)

After Amtrak train 313, the westbound Missouri River Runner, arrives in Kansas City in the evening, the train heads further west to Santa Fe Junction to be turned on the wye there. Just be... (more)

Constructed on part of the old Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Redlands Loop, originally built on the late 1800s, is Metrolink's newest service: Arrow (named as an homage to the Inland Empire's... (more)

Amtrak train 475, a Springfield MA to New Haven CT Hartford Line train, is about to depart Springfield's Union Station. Amtrak "control coach" 9641 (ex-AMTK Metroliner Coa... (more)

BNSF Railway train Z-SBDALT4-15 round the curve at Cajon Pass' Summit as it heads from nearby San Bernardino CA to Alliance TX. A quartet of BNSF locomotives - ES44C4s 7089, 6964 and 8327, plus D... (more)

A colorful group of Union Pacific SD70ACe locomotives was found in the railroad's Dolores Yard on this October day: UP 1996 (their Southern Pacific Heritage unit, and the former UP 8523), UP 1988... (more)

Passing under the Canadian National bridge as they back onto their train are BNSF Railway ES44DC 7437, ES44C4 8079, Dash 9-44CW 5074, Dash 9-44CW 5488, Dash 9-44CW 994 and ES44DC 7651. Before lon... (more)

Heading east, and upgrade, is a Norfolk Southern Railway manifest, with Dash 9-44CW 9932 and SD70ACe 2708 up front. Assisting this train over the mountain are NS SD40-2s 3362 and 3348. (Altoona,... (more)

There was a lot of interesting equipment in the San Luis & Rio Grande's yard in Alamosa when I visited. On the left is a former Southern Pacific caboose, Railroad Passenger Car Numbering Bureau (... (more)

Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington 9, a 24" gauge 0-4-4, recently completed an extensive rebuild that lasted nearly a decade. This little steam engine is showing off as a result, with a high... (more)