"Powered By Our People"...On A Different Railroad. Still less than half way into its trip from Las Vegas, NV to San Luis Obispo, CA, UP 1111 and its business car train find themse... (more)

Pausing for work in Kings Park, Local 313 prepares to break away from its train to drop off the rear two units as the new local power for Kings Park prior to picking up more cars for the trip down... (more)

Working its way out of a dip in the terrain and past the original ATSF water storage tower here that once helped quench the thirty of Santa Fe steam locomotives, BNSF 8358 leads an eastbound inter... (more)

Goat Boats at Dawn. BNSF 1078, a 1996 product of General Electric, catches the first light of the day at Oro Grande as it, along with a fellow Heritage 1 painted Dash-9, a warbonnet and two... (more)

With some colorful wildflowers still holding true thanks to a late spring rain, UP 7494 adds some yellow to the scene as it leads the westbound LOF67 through town.

Get A Grip. The cylinder cocks on VC 2 send out a brief stream of steam and hiss in frustration as the 99-year-old locomotive recovers from a wheel slip during the Southern California Railw... (more)

It's golden hour at Redondo Junction as AMTK 509 basks in the light adjacent to the ex-Santa Fe Railway turntable here at Amtrak's Redondo Junction locomotive servicing facility. Those with ken ey... (more)

Swaying to and fro as it meanders east down the tracks of the Santa Paula Branch Line, UP 1469 leads a train of two loaded covered hoppers of plastic pellets bound for Spears Manufacturing in Sant... (more)

Slicing through the smoke filled air, which has blanketed most of the San Fernando Valley as multiple brush fires burn across Southern California, AMTK 156 leads this morning's northbound Coast... (more)

Simmering quietly in the morning light, Cumbres & Toltec 484 and Denver & Rio Grade Western 425 sit outside the shops at Chama. Wearing a new number as part of the Victorian Iron Horse Roundup fes... (more)

With their air hose connection problems addressed, UP 4611 gets the LOF65 back underway as it departs the siding at Millhouse.

Having spotted over a small viaduct in the morning light, Fillmore & Western No. 14 sends a plume of steam sideways on the engineer's side of the locomotive as it works through its morning blowdow... (more)

UP 2769 leads a westbound intermodal over BNSF's San Bernardino Subdivision and through Metrolink's Riverside station as it closes in on home rails at the western end of town.

You Can't Outrun The Clock. With the sun having swung over to the west as the late afternoon slowly draws to a close, the sunlit fireman's side of Ventura County Railway No. 2 and it's trai... (more)

On a glorious, summer afternoon in New Mexico, AMTK 135 hustles the eastbound Southwest Chief across the flats at Schomberg under a stunning sky. The train is using ever bit of the dwindling milea... (more)