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While hanging around Martinez, where my railfanning obsession began with my older brother watching Southern Pacific Dayli... (more)

Amtrak San Joaquin 712 head south out of Modesto on its way from Oakland to Bakersfield. This train has Amtrak Non-Powered Control Unit 90278 up front (NPCUs were rebuilt into unpowered ca... (more)

Leased by Foster Farms from Western Rail Inc., WRIX SD38AC 201 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Duluth Missabe & Iron Range 201 in June 1971. Fifty-three years later, it is ... (more)

Union Pacific UPS Expedited Intermodal train ZLCLT 16 (Los Angeles to Lathrop, powered by UP ET44AC 2655, ES44AC 7713 and AC4400CW 7198) descends the grade as it passes through Bealville, in the T... (more)

The KLW SE24B is a low-emissions diesel switcher locomotive built by Knoxville Locomotive Works, powered by a single MTU Series 4000 12V R54 (TIER 3) diesel engine which develops a total power out... (more)

SD40-2 #715 with Susan Komen GP40-2 #425 in support of Breast Cancer research.

With Union Pacific SD70ACe-T4 UP 3049 and AC4400CW 6847 on the headend, and AC4400CW 6520 on the rear, Grain Shuttle GSB3PX 15 heads to Pixley, 156 miles ahead. This train originated in South Sai... (more)

BNSF Railway train Z-STOWSP8-14A rounds the first curve in about 13 miles as it begins its assault on the Tehachapi Mountains. BNSF ES44C4 6889, ES44AC 6000 and ET44C4 3958 are hauling 41 loaded ... (more)

Soo Line 744 leads a CNW coal train thru Oak Creek, WI in May of 1989. It was unusual to see a non-CNW leader on CNW's Old Line due to signal requirements south of Wisconsin. This area of Oak Cree... (more)

Summer night runaround at Sandcut at the base of the Tehachapi mountains.

Budds at BAT. New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) car no. 3736 is on the end of a string of 10 R32 cars being towed through the Brooklyn Army Terminal on the morning of June 11, 202... (more)

Scrap in the Street. NYNJ Rail SE10B locomotive 5101 and S2 no. 253 are seen leading a 10-car train of former New York City Subway cars down 1st Avenue in Brooklyn, heading for the 65th... (more)

DL 405 has just returned to Steamtown yard from Taylor with a cut of cars that will be the next days PO74.

NS 4598 leads a mixed freight west through Matawanna PA.

NS 54M, a grain train made up entirely of NS covered hoppers, sails across the bridge at Mt. Union PA.