Heading from "Hollywood" to "Buena Vista Street" is "Pacific Electric" trolley 623, about to pass the Elias & Company store.

Why the quotation marks? We... (more)

Due to a variety of factors, primarily both problems with aging Pacific Surfliner cars and the Thanksgiving passenger crush, Amtrak sent some of their northern California equipment south to... (more)

Three Brothers From San Francisco Leave Home. With the end of diesel service on CalTrain, and much digital ink having been spilled over the F40 and MPI36 units now out of work, it is a good... (more)

Union Pacific 3GS21B Y2723 is a low-emissions diesel genset locomotive built by National Railway Equipment (NRE) at their Mount Vernon shops in Southern Illinois. Instead of a single prime mover, ... (more)

Union Pacific Railway GP40P-2 1375 first showed up in Anaheim in November 2021 with no graffiti upon it. Roughly two-and-a-half years later, it looks like this. Built by EMD in November 1974 as ... (more)

NO TWO ALIKE!

So a GP15-1, GG20GE, GP38, SL-1RCL and SW1500 walk into a bar … er … yard. And besides the variety of models and builders, many of them also have intere... (more)

UP's Anaheim Hauler prepares to start working at Anaheim with 4 SD70 variants for power.

Amtrak 580 hustles south into Anaheim with a San Diego bound Surfliner.

Power for the LOA32 local out of Anaheim has seen better days as they lay over for the weekend. UP 1083 is an ex-SSW GP60, while ex-SP GP40P-2 1375 is coupled behind them.

Union Pacific's local from East Los Angeles to Anaheim shoves a box car onto an industrial spur as it nears the end of the line on the Anaheim Branch. UP GP20 476, built as UP 706 in July 1960, i... (more)

Union Pacific's local from East Los Angeles to Anaheim shoves a box car onto an industrial spur as it nears the end of the line on the Anaheim Branch. UP GP20 476, built as UP 706 in July 1960, i... (more)

At Union Pacific's West Anaheim Yard, the power from the Anaheim Hauler lays over after bringing their train here from West Colton Yard. These cars will then be taken to various industries... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad's latest locomotive paint scheme has, in my opinion (and I know you all care about my opinion!), one major flaw: The railroad has decided to eliminate the elegant &q... (more)

Wearing the Union Pacific Railroad's latest locomotive paint scheme (with a smaller American flag, relocated to the side of the nose, a large roadname where the flag used to be, no more lightning ... (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)