By the late 1950s the final chapter had been written for mainline steam in North America, with only a few exceptions, lines of dead steam locomotives awaited the scrapper's torch across the countr... (more)

Arizona & California….in Arizona and California. Departing Parker, AZ westbound A&C train 708, bound for interchange with the BNSF at Cadiz, crosses the impressive ex-Santa Fe bridge across the ... (more)

As a threatening sky moves across southern California it is business as usual at Amtrak's Redondo Junction locomotive facility. Originally owned by the Santa Fe Railway, many of the Santa Fe facil... (more)

As an eastbound BNSF stack train goes up a westbound unit tank train comes down into 'old Cajon'. This location, once Cajon Station, is where the north and south tracks split with the original 3% ... (more)

Meet me at Walonger… Lumbering up the western slope of the Tehachapi Pass a lumber heavy QRVWCB circles the famous Tehachapi Loop at Walong moments from meeting BNSF's westbound Z WSPNBY. Work t... (more)

A powered up westbound hotshot sails across BNSF's Needles Subdivision east of Lavic with the vast and rugged Mojave Desert as the backdrop.

Not museum pieces yet! Having finished their work at Rice the Mojave Desert again echoes the chant of 6 second generation EMDs as they bring westbound tonnage on ARZC train 708 across the desert t... (more)

Returning light power from their eastern interchange with the BNSF at Castle Hot Springs, Arizona & California power, this day including a pair of RCPE SD40-2s (6434 and 6414) sandwiching a exSP S... (more)

Westbound double stacks contend with the stiff 1.4% continuous grade on the climb out of Needles, CA and the Colorado River Valley at Java on BNSF's Needles Subdivision. The arduous & continuous p... (more)

Streetcars! On a fine afternoon in the Mojave Desert BNSF's Q NYCLAC experienced a mechanical issue which would require helpers to be called out of Needles. A few hot Z trains were run around ... (more)

Amidst the charred landscape on the western slope of Cajon Pass a monster westbound BNSF stack train carefully drops down grade with its head end approaching Pine Lodge on the former 'north track'... (more)

Exercising trackage rights first hammered out by Union Pacific and BNSF predecessors (Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railway and Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe respectively) a eastbound Union Pacific stack... (more)

21 years after becoming a part of the Union Pacific Railroad, Chicago & Northwestern yellow and green finds itself on the point of a westbound unit tank train, carefully drifting down the western ... (more)

32 years…… It had been 32 years since the symphony of steam had last echoed through Soledad Canyon as former Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 returns to her home in Los Angeles after being on hand at Vince... (more)

The steam era…2016. The steam era in the United States ended in the 1950s however even all these years later several traces can still be found, both lovingly preserved and quietly forlorn. Case ... (more)