The day started off with 2½-inches of rain, but by 16:30 (4:30 pm) the precipitation had ceased long enough ago that the sun had come out by the time Metrolink train 609 rolled past Depot Park an... (more)

Locomotive Leasing Partners GP38-2 2238 pulls a string of autoracks along the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul. LLPX 2238 is the former Long Island Railroad 255. This train, viewed from Ha... (more)

Built by the American Locomotive Company in June 1955 as Southern Pacific 1050, this T-6 locomotive was renumbered 1217 in 1965. With 82 on the roster, SP owned more ALCO S-6 locomotives than any... (more)

Sitting in the north end of Union Pacific’s Dolores Yard is 21,600 horsepower, resting after arriving on a westbound and later being called for an eastbound. Besides providing the muscle, CSX T... (more)

A pair of BNSF Railway locals meet on the Norfolk Southern’s Kansas City District (of the Illinois Division), which connects to the BNSF Brookfield Sub just to the left of here … BNSF GP39E 29... (more)

On the eleventh day of operation for Washington DC's new streetcar line, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority LRV 202 makes a stop a H Street (at Union Station), one end of the 2.2-mile ... (more)

Making its stop in Orange is a southbound Metrolink Orange County Line train, behind F59PH 853. (Orange, California – August 20, 2014)

The first Amtrak train 4 of the new year makes the first stop of its journey. Just a few miles out of Los Angeles, Amtrak P42DCs 206 and 131 are pulling six cars (39038, 23086, 38048, 33009, 3410... (more)

541 miles into its 2222 mile journey from Los Angeles CA to Chicago IL, three Santa Fe engines (two F45s – ATSF 5933 and another – and an F7B – plus a steam generator car) lead Amtrak 4, the... (more)

As the eastern sky begins to glow, the volunteers for the BNSF California Division’s annual Christmas Train will soon begin arriving for a fun day of keeping underprivileged families entertained... (more)

A New Jersey Transit train arrives at Hoboken Terminal late in the day, with NJTR PL42AC 4026 shoving on the rear. From this vantage point the new World Trade Center can be seen under constructio... (more)

Metrolink F59PH 852 leads train 859, Inland Empire-Orange County service heading from San Bernardino to Oceanside, through the crossover from northbound Track 1 to southbound Track 2 at CP Maple, ... (more)

Nearly seven years after receiving the red and yellow colors of the proposed Southern Pacific Santa Fe merger, Southern Pacific SD45R 7564 is showing some wear and tear when found in Dolores Yard ... (more)

Rolling along California's Central Coast is Amtrak train 14, the westbound Coast Starlight heading from Los Angeles to Seattle. On this first day of 1994, the train is powered by 10% of th... (more)

Four F-Units (AMTK FP7 110, SP FP7 6456, AMTK F7B 161, AMTK FP7 120) from Amtrak train 1, the westbound Sunset Limited, have cut off the train after delivering it to Los Angeles Union Stati... (more)