A trio of brand-new Santa Fe Dash 8-40BWs, all "elephant-style," decent Cajon Pass with a westbound piggyback train. A trio of brand-new Santa Fe Dash 8-40BWs, all "elephant-style,... (more)

To commemorate the sixty-six Union Pacific employee/reservists who were called to active duty for "Operation Desert Storm," Union Pacific painted SD40-2 3593 (ex-UP 8084) into this disti... (more)

A quartet of Santa Fe U23Bs roll through the railway’s Cleburne Yard, with ATSF 6336 (built in December 1970) in the lead. (Cleburne Texas – March 3, 1973)

A pair of Whitcomb 70-ton diesels, numbers 75 and 73, sit in the Warren & Saline River Railroad Company’s facility in Warren. The WSR is a shortline that operates 19.42 miles from a connection ... (more)

CSX has been a railroad for just over three years as C30-7 7011 leads a train southward out of the yard in Fayetteville. CSXT 7011 is the former Seaboard System 7011, and before that Louisville &... (more)

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway baretable train rounds the curve at Cajon Campground and approaches the Swarthout Road grade crossing as it nears Blue Cut in the lower part of Cajon Pass. ... (more)

BNSF Railway train V-PEASDG4-12 (Vehicles, Pearland TX to San Diego CA) rolls through Rose Canyon, having just conquered the steepest grade (2.2%) on the Los Angeles to San Diego line – Miramar ... (more)

Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners are so named because for much of their trip through southern California, they skirt the Pacific Ocean. The bluffs in Del Mar, not too far north of San Diego, pr... (more)

All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray… At the corner of 7th and Townsend in downtown San Francisco, California, was the Southern Pacific’s modest facility for servicin... (more)

The Rock Island Railroad ceased operation on March 31, 1980, yet in May 1985, some five years later, the Union Pacific was storing some RI power (and some Western Pacific power as well) in North L... (more)

Southern Railway’s train 6, the northbound Piedmont, prepares to depart Charlotte, North Carolina, on a gloomy July 3, 1976. A pair of FP7s, SOU 6146 and 6143, were easily able to handle... (more)

Found in the Jackson, Tennessee’s Iselin Yard is Illinois Central Gulf SW14 1497. Built by EMD in July 1951 as Illinois Central SW9 9459, this end-cab switcher was renumbered ICG 459 following ... (more)

Running short-hood first, contrary to the way the control stand is set up. But, while Southern's hood diesels were set up as "long hood forward," they were considered to be bi-directional). Sout... (more)

Deadheading from Pines Spur (at milepost 249.6) to the Amtrak station in downtown San Diego is BNSF Officer Special O-OCDSDG1-06. For this southbound move, the train is led by ES44DC 7716 and ET4... (more)

Skirting the Pacific Ocean, Amtrak train 572 is living up to its Pacific Surfliner name as it skirts the beach along the expensive real estate of the Del Mar Bluffs. Amtrak P42DC 172, a Ju... (more)