The big prize that I went out for last Sunday, March 26, 2023, was P42DC #203, Amtrak's Operation Life Saver unit, which was leading #3. Don't know if the timing has changed on how long the train ... (more)

We've had an Indian Summer of cowl units on Metrolink, as a number of once removed from service F59PHrs are running in regular rotation again.

Under the control of a single GEVO, a San Antonio train for the Harbor pulls of the UP Alhambra Sub and onto Metrolink's River Sub on its way to the Alameda Corridor.

A Memphis bound intermodal train out of the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor comes to a stop in Fullerton, where it will be stabbed for over an hour due to police activity.

In 1951 the New York, New Haven & Hartford purchased ten Mack FCD Type 2 railbuses, only to turn around and sell most of the shortly after. Sperry Rail Services 402 was one of those, converted int... (more)

Back in 1997 I had an absolute dream job (except for the lower than expected pay and the drive to Burbank and home each day which probably took ten years off my life). Still, I was working at NBC,... (more)

Yesterday (03/17/2023)'s BNSF First Watson has finished its work at the El Segundo refinery, and had lunch, and is now on its way back to Torrance, where it will do more customer switching before ... (more)

Traveling through Europe with friends I somehow wound up in Cambridge, England all by myself. After touring the university (which I highly recommend, beautiful campus), I found myself back to the ... (more)

Two former Erie Lackawanna NW2s and an SW9 await their next assignments in their old home territory of Croxton Yard (the Erie Railroad's big New York area yard). Before being patched and numbered ... (more)

Summer high sun is the worst, but sometimes you can find an angle that still kind of works. Here is Cedar Hill (New Haven) bound SENH1 on July 1, 1978, heading south through Hyde Park, New York ou... (more)

It was approaching evening on July 1, 1978 when two friends and I stopped on the way home at Roseton, New York (near Newburgh) and caught this northbound with an ex Penn Central GP40, and a blue S... (more)

This little display train was parked at 7326 East Hwy 140 in Planada, CA (near Merced) as part of the Red Rock Winery. It is led by a General Electric 25-ton, 150 horsepower, industrial locomotive... (more)

Up until December 27, 2002, I had not had a camera fail on me. I'd had film not catch. I'd made my own exposure and focus mistakes, but I'd had good luck with the cameras themselves. I don't beliv... (more)

Looking back, it's hard to fully understand things I didn't photograph in my teens. Like why is this the only thing even approaching a 50% clean shot of the transfer table at Elizabethport, NJ? I ... (more)

New York Cross Harbor Railroad S1 #25 street running on 2nd Avenue near Bush Terminal in Brooklyn New York on May 1, 1998, gets some protection from the city's finest as the crew tries to figure o... (more)