The Santa Fe–Southern Pacific merger was an attempted corporate consolidation of two of the major railroads in the Western United States at the time: the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway an... (more)

Passing through the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (serving Amtrak, Metrolink and both long distance and local busses) is Union Pacific local LOA32, known at the Costa Mesa loca... (more)

Laying over in Union Pacific's West Anaheim Yard on the day after Thanksgiving, UP GP38-2 736 (the former Missouri Pacific 2236) will go to work again on Monday morning heading to Huntington Beach... (more)

At 8:00 in the morning, Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief out of Chicago, parallels Orangethorpe Avenue in eastern Anaheim. This train is running 18 minutes ahead of schedule, ... (more)

Done for the day at the West Anaheim Yard, are several Union Pacific Railroad Geeps, which will go to work again in the morning. In the morning, GP38-2s 792 and 736; will head to Huntington Beach... (more)

Purchased in the early 1960s to replace aging passenger power, Southern Pacific's SDP45s stayed in that service after Amtrak took over operating most of America's passenger trains. But after a de... (more)

Done for the day at the West Anaheim Yard, are four Union Pacific Railroad Geeps, which will go to work again in the morning. The two in the distance, GP40 1529 and GP60 1117, will head to Santa ... (more)

Southern Pacific 2547 takes a boxcar and caboose towards the SP yard in Anaheim, California.

Kind of a "Frankenstein" Locomotive ... And Not Just Because of this Graffiti

Union Pacific "GP40M-2" 1529 is the former Southern Pacific "GP40R&q... (more)

The Red Car Trolley is a meter gauge (3 ft 3+3?8 in) tramway and transportation attraction at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Construction began on Jan... (more)

Union Pacific GP38-2 323 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Missouri Pacific 914 in October 1972. MoPac later renumbered it to MP 2065. It was eventually sold to Helm Financi... (more)

Southern Pacific MP15AC 2756 is, by this date, no longer an SP locomotive, as the SP was acquired by the Union Pacific in 1996, nine years previous to this date. Built by General Motors Electro-M... (more)

Heading from "Hollywood" to "Buena Vista Street" is "Pacific Electric" trolley 623, about to pass the Elias & Company store.

Why the quotation marks? We... (more)

Due to a variety of factors, primarily both problems with aging Pacific Surfliner cars and the Thanksgiving passenger crush, Amtrak sent some of their northern California equipment south to... (more)

Three Brothers From San Francisco Leave Home. With the end of diesel service on CalTrain, and much digital ink having been spilled over the F40 and MPI36 units now out of work, it is a good... (more)