Speeding through suburban Orange County is BNSF intermodal double-stack train S-LPCLBE1-23, ticking off the last few miles on its trip from Chicago’s Logistics Park to Long Beach. BNSF ES44C4 660... (more)

It’s a bit of a cheat, but sometimes the best shot of a train is on the rear, particularly if the Distributed Power Units are facing rearward. Such was the case with Union Pacific train WELYUZ-20... (more)

Dwarfed by Cajon Pass’ Mormon Rocks is Union Pacific train WELYUZ-20, a work train (a solid train of Herzog ballast cars) traveling from Elsey CA to Yuma AZ. Overnight and early morning snow stil... (more)

One of Cajon Pass’ iconic locations is the big curve that leads eastbound trains in Summit. Following a snowing night, BNSF Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-SBDWSP9-25 (San Bernardino CA to Wi... (more)

Winding through the S-curve at Mormon Rocks in Cajon Pass, BNSF Intermodal Stacks train S-ALTLBT1-21 makes it way from Alliance, Texas, to the Port of Long Beach’s Pier T. They typical quartet of... (more)

After getting reports that Long Beach’s Metro Ports’ new locomotive was sitting in Union Pacific’s Me... (more)

Norfolk Southern GP38-2 5199, the former Southern Railway 5199, has completed it work and is heading back on the NS’s Illinois Division’s Kansas City District to Avondale Yard. (Birmingham, Misso... (more)

Tucked away deep in a Mid America Locomotive & Car Repair facility is Valiant Management and Holdings LLC CF7 2584. As with all CF7s, this engine was built by EMD as a Santa Fe F-Unit, in this ca... (more)

At the last light of day Metrolink train 688, operating on the southbound on the system’s Orange County Line (heading from Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo) has shut its ditchlights off ... (more)

Metrolink train 689, heading to Los Angeles from Irvine, makes a stop on the Orange County Line. SCAX MP36PH-3C 902, resplendent it perhaps Metrolink’s least-attractive paint scheme (almost all w... (more)

California Department of Transportation SC-44 2116 pulls a six car Pacific Surfliner through Chapman University as it heads from Goleta to San Diego. Train 768 has an eclectic set of cars ... (more)

One of BNSF Railway’s ten 25th Anniversary engines, ES44AC 6179, leads a 14,187-foot double-stack train heading to Long Beach from Chicago. This train, over 2½ miles long and weighing 19,358-tons... (more)

BNSF Railway train S-LBTLPC1-12 heads west on BNSF’s San Bernardino Sub. BNSF ES44AC 6113, ES44C4 6935 and ES44DC 7549 are up front, and the two Distributed Power Units on the rear are BNSF ES44C... (more)

The first Metrolink train out of Los Angeles on the Orange County Line for the day is train 600, passing under the signals at milepost 164 on the BNSF’s San Bernardino Sub. Bound for Oceanside, i... (more)

Union Pacific ES44AC 8091 and SD70ACe 1982 (the railroad’s Missouri Pacific Heritage engine) are tied down at the railroads West Anaheim Yard. The next morning they will take a Hauler back to Wes... (more)