Oakley River Station Barge Unloading, on the banks of the Mississippi River, operates a variety of locomotives, in this case GP9 2002 and MP15DC 1345. GP9 2002 is the former Canadian Pacific 8540,... (more)

At one-month-old, Union Pacific ES44AC 7385 has yet to accumulate much road grime upon it. (Dolores Yard, Compton, California - April 15, 2009)

Found in the Alton & Southern yard in East Saint Louis are CIT Group/Equipment Financing (CITX) SD40 3082 (ex-GFCX 3082, née-Canadian Pacific 5521) and Capital Finance (CBFX) GP40 4003 (ex-Harbor... (more)

Passing through the campus of Chapman University is BNSF Railway freight train H-BARSDG1-22A, with the first half of the train having just transitioned to Metrolink's Orange Sub after traveling do... (more)

Built in April 1965 as Terminal Railroad Association 1236, this EMD SW1200 later became Lange-Stegmann Company 1236, then Foster Townsend Rail Logistics 1236, before being sent south to Gulf Coast... (more)

Metrolink train 608 used to arrive in Orange at 19:20 (7:20 pm), but starting three days earlier, on October 21, it now arrives there at 9:30, essentially ten hours earlier, thanks to radically ne... (more)

74 Years Old and Still Working!

RPCX SW1 738, still carrying the lettering for former owner Washington Terminal, was found at St. Louis' Union Station. Built by EM... (more)

The Santa Lucia Mountains on California's Central Coast are the backdrop as Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 799 approaches its final stop on its run from Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo. AMTK F59P... (more)

Whisking commuters home to Long Beach from Los Angeles is a set of three Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority P865 LRVs. This is the Blue Line, generally built upon the last o... (more)

Among the group of Union Pacific locomotives parked at the South Saint Louis Riverfront (adjacent to the Anheuser-Busch brewery) is UP SD40-2 1791. Classed by the UP as an SD40N, this locomotive ... (more)

Union Pacific train MASLI-06 (Manifest; Alton & Southern Railroad to Livonia, Louisiana) has just diverted from the UP's UP Springfield Sub to the Alton & Southern as it heads south. Eighteen-yea... (more)

The Terminal Railroad Association of Saint Louis has two SD60I locomotives on their roster, and both are seen here at their Madison Yard. TRRA 4001 is the former CSX Transportation 8736, original... (more)

The annual North Platte Rail Days event in 2012 was particularly good, as it included all six of the Union Pacific’s Heritage diesels, along with other special locomotives (UP 7964, the 5000th G... (more)

Spotting covered hopper cars at the TPL/Bulk Service yard in East Saint Louis, on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, is Ingram Barge Company GP15-1 1231, still wearing the colors and mark... (more)

Switching the yard near the Anheuser-Busch Brewery at the South Saint Louis Riverfront is The Prairie Line MP15DC 1003. TPLX has painted out the markings of its former owner, Norfolk Southern (NS... (more)