Under unusually cloudy skies for southern California in June*, Metrolink train 683, heading from Irvine to Los Angeles, passes the old citrus packing houses along the carrier’s Orange Sub behind F... (more)

A very clean Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 508 switches autoracks at the carrier’s southern terminus for its Auto Train on a hot, humid morning. (Sanford, Florida – August 7, 2017)

Passing under the pedestrian overpass at Metrolink’s West Corona station is BNSF Railway train Z-NYCLAC9-14, a Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train heading from New York NY to Los Angeles CA. BNSF E... (more)

This is the longest Amtrak passenger train I’ve seen in years!

Four P42DC locomotives (172, 189, 10 and 163) are pulling sixteenth cars (sleepers 32059 and 32025, diner 38031, loun... (more)

Union Pacific local LOA32 makes its way south on Southern California Regional Rail Authority’s (Metrolink) Orange Sub, which it hopped on in Anaheim and will diverge off of in Santa Ana in order t... (more)

The Belt Railway of Chicago’s Clearing Yard was a great place to find a wide variety of motive power from various railroads, and in Autumn of 1997 An eclectic mix of diesels was found there: A Co... (more)

BNSF ES44DC 7309 leads Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-LACNYC9-10 through the Fullerton Transportation Center as it makes its way from Los Angeles CA to New York NY. (The second engine in the... (more)

East Meets West … And They Are Both Late

Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief (behind P42DCs 23 and 163), has just arrived on Track 3 at the Fullerton Transportatio... (more)

They're Baaaack!

After spending a few weeks working on a maintenance-of-way train, supposedly retired 29-year-old F59PH 868 is back in passenger service! Metrolink train 812 ... (more)

A pair of BNSF Dash 9-44CWs, 5305 (built in June 2001) and 4808 (built in July 1998, and wrecked in Jackson MS in July 2005) lead an automobile train downgrade through Blue Cut, in the lower reach... (more)

Paired locomotives on Metrolink trains is usually rare, but in this case F125 904 is so new, despite its low number, that it has been teamed with 908 for break-in runs. Both engines were built in... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific 3GS21B genset locomotives, UPY 2743 and 2740, have backed the animal cars from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train under the 57 Freeway and down the railroa... (more)

Straddling the city line between Santa Fe Springs (Santa Fe Springs, which is Spanish meaning "holy faith," was first applied to mineral springs purchased by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa... (more)

BNSF ES44AC 6022, one of the railway’s ten 25th Anniversary engines, leads 7285-foot train S-ALTLHA1-14 (Alliance TX to Los Angeles Harbor Pier 400) westward through … um … uh … well, crud – I c... (more)

A large part of New York MTA’s BMT Brighton Line through Brooklyn is in the open, although still below grade and, therefore, still technically a subway. A B Sixth Avenue Express enters a brief se... (more)