Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 572 departs the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center after meeting northbound Surfliner 573 there. Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 509 (one of the 20 diesels deliv... (more)

Leased to the Frontier Cooperative Company's grain elevator in rural Nebraska is the former Belt Railway of Chicago GP7 473. After the BRC disposed of this Geep, it became Merchants Despatch Tran... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific piggyback train descends Cajon Pass headed for Los Angeles behind SD40 3111, DD35B 93B, DD35B 85B and a GP30B. (Cajon Pass, California – November 25, 1973)

Crossing the Mojave Desert, exotic terrain for a locomotive from north of the 49th Parallel, is Canadian Pacific SD70ACU 7007 (the former CP SD9043MAC 9119) leading BNSF Railway train G-WMSKIN4-26... (more)

On this afternoon, BNSF Railway operated three westbound Guaranteed Service Intermodal trains that originated in Atlanta, Georgia, and were heading to Los Angeles, California: Q-ATGLAC7-22V, Q-ATG... (more)

Crossing Beaumont Hill is a Union Pacific office car train powered by UP ES44AC 2010 (ex-UP 7469), painted to commemorate the Boy Scouts of America's 100th Anniversary. This twelve-car train, UP ... (more)

Union Pacific eastbound train E-WCLLF-16 departs the railroad's West Colton Yard ... all by itself. UP AC4400CW 6603 was sent out to rescue West Colton CA to Tucson AZ train M-WCTU-16, which suff... (more)

As Union Pacific train UP MWCNP-16 (a West Colton CA to North Platte NE manifest) climbs Cajon Pass on BNSF Cajon Sub's Main 1, BNSF High Priority Freight H-BARSDG3-16A, running a mere 15½ hours ... (more)

BNSF Railway Intermodal Stack train S-LBELPK1-15L, heading from Long Beach CA to Logistics Park in Kansas City KS, is a 168-car, 14,551-foot, 15,052-ton train. The train has BNSF 7550, 5417, 7163... (more)

New York Metropolitan Transit Authority J Train – the Jamaica Local, comprised of Alstom R160A subway cars, connecting Manhattan’s Broad Street with Queens’ Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer â... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe's New York to Los Angeles intermodal train, Q-NYCLAC6-12A; very often has at least one Norfolk Southern diesel on it. On this day, it had two – NS ET44AC 3631 and A... (more)

The automobile unloading facility adjacent to BNSF Railway's B Yard in San Bernardino is switched by a pair of former BNSF SD40-2s owned by Siemens Financial Services: 7801 (wearing BNSF's orange... (more)

Winding Through the Wind Turbines

Union Pacific intermodal train ILBMN-13 passes the Palm Springs Amtrak station (obscured by the containers) as it descends Beaumont Hill on its ... (more)

It's 105ºF (40.5ºC) and monsoonal clouds are building in the east as BNSF train H-KCKBAR9-11A (High Priority Merchandise; Kansas City KS to Barstow CA) crosses the Mojave Desert. This freight h... (more)

Union Pacific SD70ACe 3033 (along with SD70M 3823, ET44AC 2716 and AC4400CW 5889 up front, and AC4400CW 5958 as the rear DPU) bring manifest train MRVLB-01, which originated in Roseville CA, off t... (more)