Forty Years Ago at UP's East Yard

For as long as I can remember (which, for the record, is back to about 1968 in regard to the Union Pacific Railroad), the UP has been the... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 583 passes through Fullerton on Track 2 in order to avoid a police investigation of a fatal train/trespasser strike two miles ahead at Basta. This train arrived fr... (more)

CPKC Railway intermodal train 112 (Vancouver IMS, British Columbia, to Côte Saint-Luc, Québec) has just picked up a fresh crew and has just begun moving east again. Canadian Pacific AC4400CW 983... (more)

Making its first stop after departing Los Angeles is Amtrak train 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief. P42DCs 183 and 64 will handle this train for the remaining 2,239 miles to Chicago. With... (more)

Texas Gonzales & Northern Railway GP7 114 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as SLSF (Frisco) 620. Later sold to Precision National Corporation, it became PNCX 620. This locomot... (more)

CPKC Railway intermodal train 112 (Vancouver IMS, British Columbia, to Côte Saint-Luc, Québec) follows the Bow River as it rounds Morant's Curve, within Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rock... (more)

BNSF Railway H-BARPAS1-22A descends the Tehachapi Mountains and into the town of Caliente as it makes its way from Barstow CA to Pasco WA. This freight is powered by BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4126, Union ... (more)

Train 11, on Track 11, on March 11 Arriving at Los Angeles Union Station 1 hour 12 minutes behind schedule (because it arrived in San Luis Obispo 1 hour and 5 minutes late) is Amtrak tra... (more)

Navigating through the S-curve at Fullerton Junction (where Metrolink's Orange Sub diverts from BNSF's San Bernardino Sub) is BNSF Railway train Z-LACWSP7-18A, moving 73 loaded intermodal cars fro... (more)

CPKC Railway intermodal train 112 (Vancouver IMS, British Columbia, to Côte Saint-Luc, Québec) begins to enter Morant's Curve, within Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies. Canadian Paci... (more)

Around 12:30, CPKC Railway intermodal train 113 (Hochelaga, Québec, to Coquitlam, British Columbia), arrived in Field, British Columbia, for a crew change. Besides being on the western side of t... (more)

Dashing through the snow as it climbs Kicking Horse Pass is CPKC train 301, a grain train heading west to Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadian Pacific AC4400CW 8576 and Union Pacific SD70ACe 894... (more)

Morant's Curve (named to honor Canadian Pacific photographer Nicholas Morant [June 29, 1910 - March 13, 1999]) is best for eastbound trains … and, naturally, we got a westbound (CPKC 301, a grai... (more)

Morant's Curve, in Banff National Park, is perhaps the most well-known railroad photo location in the Canadian Rockies. So, of course, we paid homage to Canadian Pacific photographer Nicholas Mor... (more)

As one of Southern Pacific's "Haulers" heads west out of the railroad's West Colton Yard, it stops on the main at Pomona so the crew on it can converse with the crew on SP 3802 east (an ... (more)