The fifteen-stall Lenzen Roundhouse was originally built in 1899 to serve the standard gauge San Jose-San Francisco rail commuter line and the narrow gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad, replacing ... (more)

A pair of BNSF SD40-2s – 1773 (formerly BNSF 6958, originally ATSF 5213 … was it obvious?) and 1646 (ex-BNSF 6765, née-ATSF 5106) – idle in the Emporia Yard, awaiting their next call to dut... (more)

These is a lot that is out of the ordinary here…

(1) On the left is an intermodal train (BNSF S-CDZSCO1-29L) with a Grinstein Green and Cream SD70MAC, not a usual visitor to southern ... (more)

Hooping Up Orders

As an eastbound Southern Pacific Railroad freight, led by Cotton Belt SD45T-2 9269, departs Hiland, at the summit of Cajon Pass, the conductor grabs his ... (more)

Heading east on the BNSF Railway's Emporia Sub is BNSF Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-ALTWSP7-23A. This spot, the "ghost town" of Ellinor, just east of Strong City, Kansas, is the ... (more)

Following the BNSF's Clovis Sub, at milepost 688 we happened upon an empty coal train, BNSF E-SPSBTM0-09D, heading back to the Powder River Basin's Black Thunder Mine in Wyoming from Springerville... (more)

A somewhat rare daylight move of a San Diego-bound freight, BNSF H-BARSDG1-25A, occurred when the train transitioned off Metrolink’s Olive Sub and onto Metrolink’s Orange Sub at 11:00 am, as A... (more)

Amtrak train 821, the southbound Heartland Flyer, speeds south from Oklahoma City OK to Fort Worth TX. The carrier’s Phase IV Heritage diesel, P42DC 164, leads the 3-car train, with anot... (more)

Heading west out of Abo Canyon is a vehicle train, BNSF V-BLUSBD1-17A (Blue Island IL to San Bernardino CA), with ES44DCs 7531 and 7225 up front. This train is slowing for a Maintenance of Way tr... (more)

On the outskirts of Gallup NM is an eastbound BNSF Railway freight led by BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5156 and Norfolk Southern SD70ACe 1173. (Mentmore, New Mexico – March 19, 2024)

Union Pacific Railway's shuttle that hauls rock from a quarry in Cabazon to a facility in Gardena (south of downtown Los Angeles), symboled R WCWCC 18 (because it technically originates and termin... (more)

Heading east as it passes under Beaumont Avenue is a Union Pacific local, with a single SD70ACe (UP 8867) and about a dozen cars, most of which are lumber cars for the various lumber yards in town... (more)

As the British Columbia display train nears its destination, Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, BC 4-6-4 2860 has not gotten onto Union Pacific's Los Angeles Sub, on which Southern Pacific has ... (more)

Climbing upgrade toward to cross the Tehachapi Mountains, the grade is about to get a bit steeper in a mile or two. British Columbia "Royal Hudson" 2860 (ex-Canadian Pacific 2860) is on... (more)

A trio of SD40-2s, plus an SD45, grind upgrade to get a Union Pacific freight out of San Bernardino and over Cajon Pass. One-month-old UP SD40-2 3730 leads this train as it passes through Verdemo... (more)