Built by General Electric in October 1998, Canadian Pacific AC4400CW 8565 is seen at the railway's Pig's Eye Yard (named for a nearby lake). This yard was originally Milwaukee Road's, and then So... (more)

BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4763 leads a Barstow to San Diego freight past the historic Santa Fe station (the white dome above the autoracks, hidden in all the vegetation) in San Juan Capistrano, California,... (more)

It may be January, but the unusually-brown hills in San Timoteo Canyon indicate that southern California had entered another period of drought, lasting from late 2006 through 2009.

Unio... (more)

Departing Long Island Railroad's Jamaica Station westbound is a LI work train with MP15AC 165 leading, pulling car E869 (ex-M3 car 9869, converted to Alcohol/Sandite service, which I believe is fo... (more)

Pulling out of the BNSF Railway's Barstow Yard is a westbound freight, with BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4014, BNSF SD40-2 6894 (ex-ATSF 5166), BNSF Dash 8-40CW 815 (ex-ATSF 815), BNSF Dash 9044CW 5508 and Un... (more)

In Autumn of 2014, the Plymouth & Lincoln Railroad, operator of the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad, acquired SW1000 1012 from locomotive dealer Larry's Truck Electric. (This switcher is ex-LTEX 10... (more)

Pulling a string of autoracks along the Union Pacific's Dolores Industrial Lead is Union Pacific SD45 (now dubbed an SD40M-2) 2664, along with a Union Pacific SD40-2. UP 2664 was built by EMD in ... (more)

Heading eastward on BNSF Railway's Needles Sub, this intermodal train has five Dash 9-44CWs for power: BNSF 5484, 4150, 779, 4950 and 4008. (Barstow, California - November 6, 2007)

DEcember days are short, and as Amtrak Pacific Surfliner Weekend Service train 580 arrives at the Orange station at 3:45 pm (15:45) the sun is already very low in the sky ... but providing... (more)

Santa Fe Steam on a Santa Fe Turntable

After returning to Los Angeles from 2013's annual San Bernardino Railroad Days display, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 has re... (more)

Four in Fresh Paint!

A quartet of brand-new Union Pacific SD70ACe diesels sit on the Dolores Industrial Lead near the railroad's Dolores Yard. Coupled behind UP 8813 are ... (more)

As BNSF train M-BARSBD1-09A (Regular Merchandise; Barstow CA to San Bernardino CA) passes through Cajon at 9:07 am, much of the snow that was here earlier in the morning has melted. This train, m... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 572, heading from Los Angeles to San Diego, passes through CP Maple, the junction of Metrolink's Orange Sub and Olive Sub (and thus the plethora of switches), in Or... (more)

Rolling through Blue Cut is Union Pacific ore train OTNLB 01, which originated in Trona (in California's Mojave Desert) and is headed for the Port of Long Beach. Nine-month-old ES44AC 8089 leads ... (more)

For years, the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society would operate their steam locomotive, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 4-8-4 3751, from its home in Los Angeles to San Bernardino becaus... (more)