California Department of Transportation (CDTX) Dash 8-32BWH 2051 was built as Amtrak 501 in December 1991. (Oakland, California – February 20, 2018). Photographed on railroad property with pe... (more)

Santa Fe GP38 3504 rolled out of the General Motors Electro-Motive Division factory in McCook* IL in June 1970, wearing the ATSF’s attractive blue and yellow "pinstripe" scheme. This Ge... (more)

Eleven-year-old ES44AC 6233 is among a number of locomotives receiving some TLC at the BNSF’s Barstow Locomotive Shops. (Barstow, California – February 16, 2018). Photographed on railroad prop... (more)

Deep in the Mojave Desert, BNSF Railway train L-CAL1161-13, a local operating from Barstow to Cadiz (pronounced "KAY-Deez") and return, and known colloquially as the Cadiz Turn, a... (more)

National Steel Corporation Weirton Steel Division (WSX) SW1500 306 switches cars at their facility. Built by EMD in January 1971 as Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 9288, this switcher was later renumbered... (more)

The Bullion Mountains form a backdrop as BNSF train H-BELBAR1-12 makes its way from Belen, New Mexico, to Barstow, California. A quartet of contemporary General Electric diesels (ES44C4 8189, ES4... (more)

A Norfolk Southern transfer, heading along the Fort Wayne Line to nearby Conway Yard, rolls through suburban Pittsburgh behind NS 5900, one of the railroad’s two GP22ECO slug masters. Created fro... (more)

BNSF train Z-AUGSBD7-18 (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal, Austell GA to San Bernardino CA) traverses an S-curve as it utilizes the “natural crossover” that the Santa Fe built at Frost, a mile south of... (more)

There are just 47 miles left to go in BNSF train H-SDGBAR1-20’s 200ish-mile trip from the beaches of San Diego to high desert of Barstow. Today’s High Priority Merchandise train is powered by a q... (more)

A BNSF Railway Dash 9-44CW, 4654, appears to need some time in the shops as it belches smokes as it heads to Los Angeles. The other locomotives on this priority intermodal train, Z-LPKLAC9-19, wh... (more)

The San Bernardino Mountains are shrouded in clouds, creating a chilly backdrop as Union Pacific expedited intermodal train ZLADV01 21 heads east, bound for Denver from Los Angeles. This train ha... (more)

All trains originating at Southern Pacific’s West Colton Yard depart eastbound, and westbound trains, such as this LA Basin “Hauler,” depart eastbound and use the balloon track to make a 360º turn... (more)

Union Pacific’s Alhambra Sub makes a pair of S-curves – think of a graphed bell curve – to get to West Colton Yard as they pass under the UP’s Mojave Sub just east of the yard. Getting back on (g... (more)

Four-year-old Union Pacific SD70ACe 8449, combined with SD70M 3980 (the former Southern Pacific 9806) and SD70ACe 8505, bring a manifest across 16th Avenue to the railroad’s Council Bluffs Yard. ... (more)

Union Pacific train SYUWC 17 (Special, Yuma AZ to West Colton Yard CA) exists the UP’s Alhambra Sub and enters West Colton Yard to spend the night and perform some maintenance. UP FEF-3 class 4-8... (more)