As the equipment for Metrolink Orange County Line train 660 backs into Los Angeles Union Station to load passengers before its run to Oceanside, on an adjacent – and elevated – track a Los Ang... (more)

Just thirteen days ago, in Fort Worth TX, I encountered Amtrak's 50th Anniversary "Phase I" locomotive, P42DC 161, on train 22, the eastbound Texas Eagle. Somehow, I missed knowi... (more)

It is 18:38 (6:38 pm) and the Los Angeles Union Station Train Festival 2023 has been closed for 38 minutes. And with the sun due to set at 19:07 (7:07 pm), and rumors of Atchison Topeka & Santa F... (more)

On a hot September morning, the equipment for this day's northbound train 14, Amtrak's Coast Starlight (Los Angeles to Seattle), has just backed into Los Angeles Union Station's Track 12, and will... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 4-8-4 3751 has just arrived at Los Angeles Union Station to spend the weekend on display at Los Angeles Union Station Train Festival 2023. As usual, this steam ... (more)

Kansas City Southern Dash 9-44CW 4400's heritage is easy to discern, as it still wears the colors for BNSF Railway, from which GECX acquired it, and from whom the KCS leases it for "horsepowe... (more)

A hot Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway piggyback train, BNSF 9-896-24, passes through the station of May as it heads east out of Los Angeles behind ATSF SD40-2 5084, which has not yet been ren... (more)

Switching cars in Guadalupe, on California's Central Coast, is Southern Pacific SD7R 1500. Built by EMD in January 1953 as SP SD7 5292, this engine was renumbered to SP 2713 in the railroad's mas... (more)

The equipment for this day's Amtrak train 821, the northbound Texas Eagle, has backed into Fort Worth's Central Station, and coupled onto AMTK P42DC 63, which was awaiting the rest of the t... (more)

A pair of EMD F-units, belonging to Pioneer Railroad Equipment Company, sit in the engine facility in Gettysburg PA. PREX F7A 402 was built in December 1949, and is the former Keokuk Junction Rai... (more)

Heading from Fort Worth's North Yard to Teague is BNSF Railway train H-NYFTEA1-28A. This merchandise train has BNSF SD70ACe 8546, ES44DCs 7498 and 7490, and SD40-2 1839 (ex-BNSF 6706, née-BN 670... (more)

Among the power sitting at Fort Worth & Western's Hodge Yard are several former FWWR diesels, now in National Railway Equipment's lease fleet. NREX SD40-2 2018 is the former FWWR 2018 "Taran... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific freight heads out of Las Vegas on the UP's Third Subdivision of the Utah Division behind a trio of SD40-2s, led by UP SD40-2 3604. Bringing up the markers, when that wa... (more)

Union Pacific "Quality Manifest" train 1-WCKC-Q-(K)-17 passes through the Hinda Crossovers as it heads east from West Colton CA to Kansas City KS. Still early after the UP's acquisition... (more)

Rounding the famed Tehachapi Loop is an Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway piggyback train heading north to, most likely, Stockton CA based upon all the Bud of California refrigerated trailers, to... (more)