As Southern Pacific C415s 2409 and 2405 are bringing a freight out of Anaheim, they meet SP SW8 1123 and its C-40-3 class cupola caboose some five miles into their trip to City of Industry*. (Bue... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific hauler departs the West Colton Yard and rounds the balloon track. (All trains depart eastbound, with the Los Angeles-bound trains rounding this 360º curve to revers... (more)

A pair of Santa Fe FP45s, recently repainted in the revived red and silver "Superfleet" paint scheme (a modern variation of the road’s classic "Warbonnet" scheme) have a four... (more)

Union Pacific "Challenger" 3985 passes under the other mainline at the "natural crossover" at Frost, just south (railroad west) of Victorville, California. The big 4-6-6-4 is on a fan trip, and i... (more)

Southern Pacific's 3197 is one of three GP40P-2s on the roster, but the only one in Bicentennial paint. All three were assigned to San Francisco - San Jose commuter service. To see this engine a... (more)

Ventura County’s Bicentennial 70-tonner #4 (ex-Southwestern Portland Cement 14) at Oxnard, CA on August 3, 1976.

Beginning in 1966, the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway began a program to rebuild their fleet of aging American Car & Foundry cabooses … er … waycars (as they are called on the Santa Fe), s... (more)

Southern Pacific purchased just four GP40X diesels, and the entire fleet was on the railroad's Anaheim Hauler, spotted on the Santa Ana Branch: SP 7230-SP 7201-SP 7200-SP 7231. The two lower num... (more)

Santa Fe F7A 300L is on the point of Amtrak San Diegan #773, which at this time was using former El Capitan hi-level coaches.

Former D&RGW 5393 passes experimental UP GS14B Y2005 while switching southern California's Dolores Yard.

Early in the morning on May 23, 1990, Santa Fe GP60Ms 100 and 101 (spliced with FP45s 96 and 92, as well as business car "Mountainaire") lead train 2-891-23 past FP45s 91 and 90 on a passenger spe... (more)

Union Railroad MP15DC 33 is the first engine to be painted in the new red and yellow scheme. The engine is seen at the engine facility in Monroeville, PA, on September 26, 2009.

As Union Pacific's special moving the Big Boy from southern California to Wyoming nears the end of its first day, a father and his young daughter wave at the train as his other daughter records th... (more)

A Union Pacific transfer passes Pueblo, Colorado’s Union Station as it brings a short train to the UP yard from the BNSF yard on March 9, 2020. Sadly, there haven’t been any passenger trains ... (more)

Santa Fe FP45 5944 (ex-104) was the last FP45 to wear the original version of the Warbonnet colors, seen here at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal after bringing in Amtrak #3, "The Southwest Li... (more)