Much of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority’s L Line (formerly the Gold Line) was built on the old Santa Fe Railway’s Second District mainline. A pair of AnsaldoBreda P2550 light rail ... (more)

Fresh from the Siemens AG factory in Florin, a part of Sacramento, California, are the first two SC-44 "Chargers" for San Diego County's Coaster commuter trains. The engines were picked up at the... (more)

Rolling through San Bernardino is BNSF Railway train Z-WSPLAC9-24A, a Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train ticking off the final 65 miles of its trip from Willow Springs IL to Los Angeles. The WSPLA... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western caboose 01416 was built by the railroad’s Burnham Shops (in Denver, the downtown of which is visible to the caboose’s right) in August 1941. Originally, these cars wor... (more)

Beautifully restored to its "as delivered" appearance is Santa Fe Railway FP45 108. When the BNSF Railway retired their small fleet of FP45s, which they inherited when the Santa Fe and ... (more)

Heading through CP Maple is Union Pacific train LOA32, which originated in Anaheim and is now heading to Santa Ana to deliver two tank cars to Behr Paint. UP GP60 1064 (ex-UP 1909, originally Sou... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific iron ore train heads east under Interstate 15 and past the vineyards of Ontario in the late 70s. SP SD39 5316 is teamed with a pair of SP U33Cs to pull this 60 (or s... (more)

North(bound) meets South(bound) at Irvine as Metrolink train 811 (Riverside to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo, with F125 922 shoving) departs the station while a one-hour late Amtrak Pacific Surfl... (more)

Departing the station in Pomona CA is Amtrak’s train 36, the Ogden UT-bound Desert Wind. On this day, a pair of F40PHs, 214 and 249, are in charge of this nine-car train. There is a lot o... (more)

The Budd Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, constructed 398 RDC (an acronym for Rail Diesel Car), between 1949 and 1962. RDCs (also called Buddliners) are self-propelled diesel multiple unit ... (more)

Union Pacific GP30s 842, 851 and 837 leave East Yard and head south on the railroad's San Pedro Subdivision. As they do, they cross the Santa Fe's Third District at Hobart Tower on July 27, 1975.... (more)

Restored 1921-built Southern Pacific 4-6-2 P-8 2472 skirts the Pacific Ocean as pulls a passenger excursion, the Pacific Shore Limited, utilizing Rio Grande Ski Train coaches and a former P... (more)

Two-month-old Amtrak 50 is the first of a pair of P42DCs pulling a seven-car Desert Wind (train 35) around a curve in the Mojave Desert as the train heads toward Los Angeles from Ogden. Th... (more)

Passing through downtown Kansas City (and past the Amtrak station, the elevated walkway on the right) is Union Pacific Railway AAMPX 07, an automotive train traveling to Phoenix AZ behind SD70ACe ... (more)

A Norfolk Southern train consisting of RoadRailers from Pennsylvania and Ohio makes its way to BNSF Railway’s Argentine Yard and, following a crew change, will become BNSF train Q-KCKSAG1-06A, hea... (more)