North County Transit District (operator of the Coaster commuter trains) F59PHI 3001 sits in San Diego on a warm evening. Coaster owned two of these F59PHIs, built in September 2001. (San Diego, ... (more)

The speed limit on Anaheim’s Santa Ana Street is 25 miles-per-hour, but the speed limit on Union Pacific’s Santa Ana Industrial Lead, laid in the middle of the street, is considerably slower â... (more)

Nothing says "The '70s" like Alco C415s on the Southern Pacific, and Ford Pintos! Spending the night at Anaheim Junction on a clear April 1973 evening is SP 2404, one of ten center-cab ... (more)

An Amtrak "San Diegan" 778 makes a stop in Fullerton, California, in the early 1970s. In the early days of Amtrak, this train was powered by Santa Fe F-units until Amtrak could take del... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division constructed only three GP40P-2 locomotives, all for the Southern Pacific (SP 3197-3199) for use on their commuter trains on the San Francisco Peninsula. Two... (more)

Union Pacific train PYULB1 01 passes under the Los Angeles Metro "Blue Line" light rail line as it nears its destination – Union Pacific's Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF)... (more)

Buried deep in the Canadian National's Woodcrest Shops (in Homewood, Illinois) is Illinois Central SW14 1495, wearing the markings of parent company Canadian National. This switcher was built by E... (more)

The Southern Pacific Railroad was an official sponsor of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. As such, they promoted the Games with a special paint scheme applied to SD40R 73... (more)

North County Transit District operates the Coaster commuter trains in San Diego County, and also operates the 21.2 mile Escondido Sub, connecting Escondido with Oceanside. This line, which... (more)

Built in June 1990 to power Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe’s hot intermodal trains, ATSF GP60M 131 was delivered in the railway’s resurrected "Warbonnet" paint scheme, newly dubbed "... (more)

It is 6:14 AM on a foggy day that is so wet it is almost sprinkling, BNSF Railway train H-SDGBAR8-13 pauses in the railroad's San Bernardino B Yard, about two-thirds of the way into its trip from ... (more)

In the 1970s, the Southern Pacific railroad was predictably unpredictable – One never knew what one might find when railfanning the SP. And it got even more interesting for a few years when the... (more)

With the San Bernardino Mountains looming in the distance, BNSF train Q-PEALAC1-29A has just descended Cajon Pass and entered the Los Angeles Basin, a very large and generally flat region of south... (more)

BNSF train Q-PEALAC1-29A passes through Blue Cut as it descends Cajon Pass. Power for this intermodal train, heading to Los Angeles from Pearland, Texas, is Norfolk Southern AC44C6M 4000, BNSF ET... (more)

Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District train 218 has just begun its journey from Gary Metro Center IN to Millennium Station in Chicago IL. NCID Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) cars 45 and... (more)