Amtrak train 9, the westbound North Coast Hiawatha, makes a station stop in Livingston on a cold and snowy December day. The power for this train, SDP40Fs 531 and 576, has been "blue ... (more)

St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad 119 is a GP15-1 locomotive, built in September 1977 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division. (Fort Smith, Arkansas – December 17, 1980) Douglas G. Walker p... (more)

Thirteen-month-old Missouri Pacific GP15-1 1686 was photographed just six months after the MoPac was absorbed into the Union Pacific. While this locomotive is technically a UP possession in this ... (more)

On the American Bicentennial, Amtrak train 5, the San Francisco Zephyr, departs downtown Chicago’s Union Station for a trip to Oakland, California. AMTK SDP40Fs 622 and 627, built two ye... (more)

Seaboard Coast Line C30-7 7053, constructed in March 1980, is the second C30-7 built for the railroad without a signal light between the numberboards. Instead, SCL 7052 through 7061, L&N 7062-706... (more)

On America’s 200th Birthday, Amtrak’s train 40, the eastbound Broadway Limited, departs downtown Chicago for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the train will be split, with one section co... (more)

Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac train Extra 123 South crawls out of the railroad’s "Pot Yard" (the nickname for their Potomac Yard) behind a pair of GP40s (123 and 122) and a GP40-... (more)

BNSF Railway Officer Special O-SDGSDG9-22 is returning to San Diego after a run to Oceanside earlier in the morning. This train, passing through Rose Canyon as it descends Miramar Hill, has a pai... (more)

A special BNSF Railway train, symbolled O-SDGSDG9-22, crosses the Los Penasquitos Lagoon as it approaches the Pacific Ocean on its way from San Diego to Oceanside … and back to San Diego. This ... (more)

Skirting the Pacific Ocean between rain cells is BNSF Railway train O-LACSDG1-21A is about done with its deadhead trip from Los Angeles (actually, Commerce, a few miles southeast of downtown LA) t... (more)

BNSF Railway's freights to San Diego normally run after dark, but due to some maintenance being performed overnight, the freights have been operating during the day for a few weeks. Today's train... (more)

BNSF Railway Officer Special O-SDGLAC9-13A is about ten-miles into its trip from San Diego to Los Angeles (technically it terminates at Commerce, just a few miles from downtown LA) as it carries i... (more)

Illinois Central Gulf F3A 883-A, still in full Gulf Mobile & Ohio paint (as the merger is only a few months old), is seen here with GM&O E7A 101 (the former Alton 101). GM&O 883-A was built in Ju... (more)

Rolling southward down the center of Hillsboro Street with white flags flying are Southern Railway GP38AC 2851 and Norfolk Southern GP38-2 5101, possibly NS train P41, pulling a southbound train o... (more)

Crossing the Arkansas River, and crossing from Little Rock to North Little Rock in the process, is an eastbound Burlington Northern coal train led by BN-subsidiary Colorado & Southern SD40-2 7806 ... (more)