BNSF Railway train E-CSSBTM017A heads west back to Wyoming's Black Thunder Mine from Stratton, Ohio. A trio of SD70MACs power this train: BNSF 9545 (ex-BN 9545), 9760 and 9506 (ex-BN 9506). more)

A Union Pacific eastbound departs North Platte's Bailey Yard on a summer's morning. This is a scene repeated several times per hour all day long on the UP's incredibly busy Kearny Sub across the ... (more)

Dwarfed by the massive Farmland Service Co-op grain elevator in Gothenburg is the engine that services it – M. Ryan Railway Service Contractors "SD20" 1021. Built in January 1960 as S... (more)

On March 24, BNSF and the US Department of Transportation operated a train from Los Angeles to San Diego, returning on March 25, to evaluate the trackage. Nearly two weeks later, that train made ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliners make the trip from San Diego to Los Angeles in 3 hours, and this train (BNSF train F-T216-2-24T, a "Foreign Train operating on BNSF Track", comprised of ... (more)

As BNSF train F-T216-2-24T ("Foreign Train operating on BNSF Track", pulling this Department of Transportation test car, DOTX 216, from San Diego to Los Angeles), arrived in Fullerton, a... (more)

At 13:03 (1:03 pm), Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, rolls into the Fullerton station 5 hours 6 minute late. the last stop before arriving in Los Angeles from Chicago. Twenty... (more)

Union Pacific's 8-car Costa Mesa Local, which hasn't served Costa Mesa in decades, heads south on Metrolink's Orange Sub, on which it has trackage rights from Control Point (CP) College (na... (more)

As BNSF train F-T216-2-24T ("Foreign Train operating on BNSF Track" – although it was, technically, on Southern California Regional Rail Authority trackage here – pulling a Departmen... (more)

One-month-old Santa Fe Railway SD40-2 5143 leads a westbound freight through Blue Cut as it parallels Cajon Creek. Teamed with 5143 are F45 5904, C30-7 8025 and SD45 5599. (Cajon Pass, Californi... (more)

Amtrak train 3, the Southwest Chief, departed Chicago with two operating P42DCs (93 and 116), one dead-heading unit (113) and 10 cars. By the time the Chief got to Colorado, 116 had ... (more)

Looks Can Be Deceiving…

This appears to be rather ordinary: One of an endless parade of BNSF Railway intermodal trains (in this case, S-LBTMEM1-16A, heading from Long B... (more)

Passing through the wide-open Mojave Desert is BNSF railway train Q-ATGLAC7-24V approaches the yard in Barstow, where the power will most likely get refueled as the crew is relieved with a fresh c... (more)

An Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway westbound freight rounds a curve on a trestle over Brea Creek as it heads to Los Angeles’ Hobart Yard behind a quintet of EMD Geeps: GP35s 3369 and 3415, G... (more)

Running just 6 hours 53 minutes behind schedule, this day’s Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is just about to its next-to-last stop in Fullerton. (The previous day’s trai... (more)