Elizabeth Line train 9U81 to Abbey Wood pulls into Acton Main Line station on the Great Western Railway main to make a station stop. This cross or hybrid of a commuter train and a heavy transit tr... (more)

A GB Railfreight container train heads east through Acton Main Line station near London, UK on the morning of April 4, 2023. Power is a Class 66 (aka JT42CWR), the EMD model that has essentially t... (more)

Nothing quite like a big Alco Century... these were the most lovely of brutes, even a former Penn Central one that had been patched for Conrail. Regarding the black dirt, this was the Pit at Meado... (more)

Conrail TV16, a Detroit to North Bergen NJ intermodal train, passes through Haworth NJ on a sunny Saturday morning in autumn.

Despite having tried to railfan the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie main once, this U28B quartet lead overhead is the only Pittsburgh & Lake Erie train I ever saw in my lifetime and it was on the Norfolk &... (more)

This was PO87 (The Ordinary). The Ordinary worked Paterson, Suffern, Greycourt, Middletown, and Port Jervis. On this day it came up the Bergen County Line and then went down to Paterson on the Mai... (more)

A Los Angeles transfer job pulls power and and containers from LATC and onto the River Sub.

The big prize that I went out for last Sunday, March 26, 2023, was P42DC #203, Amtrak's Operation Life Saver unit, which was leading #3. Don't know if the timing has changed on how long the train ... (more)

We've had an Indian Summer of cowl units on Metrolink, as a number of once removed from service F59PHrs are running in regular rotation again.

Under the control of a single GEVO, a San Antonio train for the Harbor pulls of the UP Alhambra Sub and onto Metrolink's River Sub on its way to the Alameda Corridor.

A Memphis bound intermodal train out of the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor comes to a stop in Fullerton, where it will be stabbed for over an hour due to police activity.

In 1951 the New York, New Haven & Hartford purchased ten Mack FCD Type 2 railbuses, only to turn around and sell most of the shortly after. Sperry Rail Services 402 was one of those, converted int... (more)

Back in 1997 I had an absolute dream job (except for the lower than expected pay and the drive to Burbank and home each day which probably took ten years off my life). Still, I was working at NBC,... (more)

Yesterday (03/17/2023)'s BNSF First Watson has finished its work at the El Segundo refinery, and had lunch, and is now on its way back to Torrance, where it will do more customer switching before ... (more)

Traveling through Europe with friends I somehow wound up in Cambridge, England all by myself. After touring the university (which I highly recommend, beautiful campus), I found myself back to the ... (more)