An eastbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train of empty autoracks, with ATSF U36C 8784 leading a mix of GE and EMD locomotives, rounds the well-known curve leading to Cajon Pass' Summit. (Cajon Pa... (more)

Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is seen passing through Esperanza in Santa Ana Canyon with P42DC 203, the carrier's Operation Lifesaver (https://oli.org/) locomotive, on the headen... (more)

Climbing up and over southern California's Beaumont Hill, the Union Pacific's Yuma Sub features a number of S-curves, particularly on the west side. An extremely wet winter has left San Timoteo C... (more)

Forty-Three Years Ago at SP's West Colton Yard Late in the afternoon, a Southern Pacific freight passes local landmark Slover Mountain as arrives at the railroad's West Colton Yar... (more)

Forty Years Ago at UP's East Yard

For as long as I can remember (which, for the record, is back to about 1968 in regard to the Union Pacific Railroad), the UP has been the... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 583 passes through Fullerton on Track 2 in order to avoid a police investigation of a fatal train/trespasser strike two miles ahead at Basta. This train arrived fr... (more)

CPKC Railway intermodal train 112 (Vancouver IMS, British Columbia, to Côte Saint-Luc, Québec) has just picked up a fresh crew and has just begun moving east again. Canadian Pacific AC4400CW 983... (more)

Making its first stop after departing Los Angeles is Amtrak train 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief. P42DCs 183 and 64 will handle this train for the remaining 2,239 miles to Chicago. With... (more)

Texas Gonzales & Northern Railway GP7 114 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as SLSF (Frisco) 620. Later sold to Precision National Corporation, it became PNCX 620. This locomot... (more)

CPKC Railway intermodal train 112 (Vancouver IMS, British Columbia, to Côte Saint-Luc, Québec) follows the Bow River as it rounds Morant's Curve, within Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rock... (more)

BNSF Railway H-BARPAS1-22A descends the Tehachapi Mountains and into the town of Caliente as it makes its way from Barstow CA to Pasco WA. This freight is powered by BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4126, Union ... (more)

Train 11, on Track 11, on March 11 Arriving at Los Angeles Union Station 1 hour 12 minutes behind schedule (because it arrived in San Luis Obispo 1 hour and 5 minutes late) is Amtrak tra... (more)

Navigating through the S-curve at Fullerton Junction (where Metrolink's Orange Sub diverts from BNSF's San Bernardino Sub) is BNSF Railway train Z-LACWSP7-18A, moving 73 loaded intermodal cars fro... (more)

CPKC Railway intermodal train 112 (Vancouver IMS, British Columbia, to Côte Saint-Luc, Québec) begins to enter Morant's Curve, within Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies. Canadian Paci... (more)

Around 12:30, CPKC Railway intermodal train 113 (Hochelaga, Québec, to Coquitlam, British Columbia), arrived in Field, British Columbia, for a crew change. Besides being on the western side of t... (more)