Bringing up the rear of a Union Pacific weed abatement train is car Habco International car 214. HABX 214's heritage is fairly obvious, although the specific car is hard to pin down. This car, w... (more)

Union Pacific's Bicentennial ... Kind Of ...

While Union Pacific never painted a locomotive for the American Bicentennial, they did loan E9A 951 to the Preamble Express, a spe... (more)

Amtrak train 3, the Super Chief/El Capitan, departs that station in Pomona, California, but the crossing gates did not want to cooperate on this December 26, 1972, morning. (At this date, ... (more)

Amtrak train #36, led by SDP40F 526 and F40PH 221, passes through Mormon Rocks in southern California's Cajon Pass on March 27th, 1981. This is the eastbound Desert Wind, which ran from Lo... (more)

The only two BNSF engines to wear Union Pacific colors, PR30Cs 1323 and 1322, sit in the engine facility at San Bernardino, California, on October 26th, 2013. BNSF 1323 began life as Canadian Pac... (more)

American Freedom Train 4-8-4 4449 (ex-SP GS-4 4449) arrives at its display stop at Anaheim Stadium in (of course) Anaheim, CA early in the morning on January 9, 1976.

An interesting Carolina Southern consist (GP18 951, F9B 6622 and GP38 4002) is tied down in Mullins, South Carolina, and protected by a smashboard at the CSX diamond. The CALA line was originally ... (more)

On May 12, 1984, Southern Pacific SD45E 7399 (ex-SD45 8837) and SD40E 7342 (ex-SD40 8470) rest in Mojave after assisting SP GS-4 4-8-4 4449, on its way to Los Angeles, over the Tehachapi Mountains... (more)

Two of BNSF's rarest locomotives sit together in the San Bernardino engine facility: PR30C 1320 (one of four Progress Rail-built PR30Cs on the railroad, with only two of them painted in full BNSF ... (more)

A Southern Pacific westbound approaches the large West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, with a typically eclectic late-1970s consist that includes U33C, SD40T-2, SD45 and SD45T-2 models. I... (more)

The best dispatchers anticipate train movements far in advance - and as a result are probably pretty good at playing Tetris! "I've got an eastbound here, a track out of service there, and a westb... (more)

It's a busy evening in Fullerton, California, on October 25th, 2013, as Amtrak "Pacific Surfliner" 784 (Goleta to San Diego) makes a stop on Track 3, while Metrolink train 689, with a leased forme... (more)

Atlantic Coast Line E3A 501 (ex-ACL 50) soaks up attention at the EMD 75th Anniversary Open House in McCook, Illinois, on September 21, 1997. (The EMD factory is often shown as being in La Grange... (more)

Fresh from the paint shop, Santa Fe FP45s 101 and 102 models their newly applied "Superfleet" paint jobs just outside the San Bernardino station on July 4th, 1989. This resurrection of the fabled... (more)

How I Spent My Third Wedding Anniversary (Thanks, Honey!)

After assisting the World's Fair Daylight (N... (more)