The day's first northbound (westbound?) Amtrak San Diegan, train 771, makes its stop in Fullerton, the last stop before Los Angeles, at 9:00, two hours after departing San Diego. This trai... (more)

There is often a wide variety of other railroads' power in the Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing Yard. On this day, there was power from Chicago & North Western, Cotton Belt, Denver & Rio Grande... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific fright heads north, splitting the semaphore signals, on the Portland Division. (On the SP, trains heading toward San Francisco are westbound, and those heading away ... (more)

Union Pacific's Torrance Local heads south on the railroad's Torrance Industrial Lead behind UP SW1500 1006 (ex-Norfolk Southern 2322; née-Southern Railway 2322) and Cotton Belt 7282 (ex-Missouri... (more)

Burlington Northern GP20 2047 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Chicago Burlington & Quincy 911 in February 1961. When the CB&Q merged with Great Northern, Northern Pacific a... (more)

Amtrak "SW1000R" 792, seen in the carrier's Ivy City facility, was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Montour SW9 73 in May 1952. This SW9 was later sold to Youngstown &... (more)

BNSF Railway train M-BARLAC1-05A heads west into the setting sun on its way from Barstow CA to Hobart Yard in Los Angeles. BNSF ES44DCs 7718, 7705 and 7738 are up front, with two more ES44DCs, 77... (more)

Built by the American Locomotive Company in July 1951 for the United States Department of Energy (DOE 39-5309), this RS-1 was later sold to DuPont, which numbered it DUPX 107. In 2015 it was loca... (more)

This locomotive was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Union Pacific SD24B 438B in September 1959. Retired by the UP in October 1977, this cabless locomotive was purchased by Prec... (more)

As the equipment for Metrolink Orange County Line train 660 backs into Los Angeles Union Station to load passengers before its run to Oceanside, on an adjacent – and elevated – track a Los Ang... (more)

Just thirteen days ago, in Fort Worth TX, I encountered Amtrak's 50th Anniversary "Phase I" locomotive, P42DC 161, on train 22, the eastbound Texas Eagle. Somehow, I missed knowi... (more)

It is 18:38 (6:38 pm) and the Los Angeles Union Station Train Festival 2023 has been closed for 38 minutes. And with the sun due to set at 19:07 (7:07 pm), and rumors of Atchison Topeka & Santa F... (more)

On a hot September morning, the equipment for this day's northbound train 14, Amtrak's Coast Starlight (Los Angeles to Seattle), has just backed into Los Angeles Union Station's Track 12, and will... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 4-8-4 3751 has just arrived at Los Angeles Union Station to spend the weekend on display at Los Angeles Union Station Train Festival 2023. As usual, this steam ... (more)

Kansas City Southern Dash 9-44CW 4400's heritage is easy to discern, as it still wears the colors for BNSF Railway, from which GECX acquired it, and from whom the KCS leases it for "horsepowe... (more)