A trio of diesels lays over on the wye in Union Pacific’s West Anaheim Yard after bringing a train in from West Colton Yard. UP ES44AC 5483, AC6000CW 7015 and SD40-2 2043 were the power, with 2/3... (more)

Curiously, a set of three BNSF Railway engines was laying over in Union Pacific’s West Anaheim Yard. BNSF ES44DC 7762, ES44C4 3744 and ES44DC 7759 spent a sunny Sunday laying over after bringing ... (more)

A trio of diesels lays over on the wye in Union Pacific’s West Anaheim Yard after bringing a train in from West Colton Yard. UP ES44AC 5483, AC6000CW 7015 and SD40-2 2043 were the power, with 2/3... (more)

Nearly two hours after BNSF train Q-NWHLAC6-30 stopped about six-miles east of Summit, due to chronic Positive Train Control (PTC) and Trip Optimizer programming failures, the train arrives at Caj... (more)

Adjacent to the Santa Ana River’s Prado Dam is the "station" named Prado Dam. At one time it was in rural Riverside County, at the eastern end of Santa Ana Canyon, in which the Santa Fe... (more)

As Union Pacific train UP F-ILBDV01-04I, with UP ES44AC 7760 as the rear Distributed Power Unit (DPU), grinds up Cajon Pass, BNSF Railway train Q-NWHLAC6-30 pops out from behind it on another main... (more)

Consider the length of BNSF train Z-LACWSP9-05L, which is visible in the distance as it rounds the much-photographed curve at Cajon Pass’ Summit, and that fact that this train is carrying hundreds... (more)

After a series of stops due to issues with the locomotives’ Positive Train Control (PTC) and Trip Optimizer programming, BNSF train Q-NWHLAC6-30 was able to get the systems working all right and t... (more)

Bringing up the rear of BNSF Railway train Q-NWHLAC6-30 is one of the railway’s ten 25th Anniversary engines, in this case ES44AC 6075. And someone who assigns power didn’t follow the edict that ... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-NWHLAC6-30 leans into a curve as it heads west toward Cajon Pass. BNSF ES44AC 5750 and British Columbia Railway Dash 9-44CW 4653 are leading this 11,142-foot long intermodal ... (more)

Santa Fe Railway’s Topeka shops built Baggage Car 3922 in 1958, and in 1970 it was one of ten Baggage Cars to be rebuilt into Steam Generator Cars in order to provide steam when steam line-equippe... (more)

In 1972, Seaboard Coast Line, Frisco and the Santa Fe operated a special promotional train from Richmond, California, to Richmond, Virginia to promote improved transcontinental service, thanks to ... (more)

Stradling the boundary between two cities, BNSF Railway train Z-LACNYC9-28 parallels Crowther Avenue, the eastbound lanes of which are in Anaheim while the westbound lanes are in Placentia, effect... (more)

Parked on a spur at the Santa Fe station in Amarillo, and connected to a steam line; is Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe business car 57. Built by Pullman in 1924, this 73'6"-long car was originally nu... (more)

California Western GP9 65 brings three covered hoppers to Goshen Junction. This is the San Joaquin Valley Railroad’s Goshen Sub, and the SJVR has borrowed this engine for a while – it was back to... (more)