Santa Fe Steam on a Santa Fe Turntable

After returning to Los Angeles from 2013's annual San Bernardino Railroad Days display, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 has re... (more)

Four in Fresh Paint!

A quartet of brand-new Union Pacific SD70ACe diesels sit on the Dolores Industrial Lead near the railroad's Dolores Yard. Coupled behind UP 8813 are ... (more)

As BNSF train M-BARSBD1-09A (Regular Merchandise; Barstow CA to San Bernardino CA) passes through Cajon at 9:07 am, much of the snow that was here earlier in the morning has melted. This train, m... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 572, heading from Los Angeles to San Diego, passes through CP Maple, the junction of Metrolink's Orange Sub and Olive Sub (and thus the plethora of switches), in Or... (more)

Rolling through Blue Cut is Union Pacific ore train OTNLB 01, which originated in Trona (in California's Mojave Desert) and is headed for the Port of Long Beach. Nine-month-old ES44AC 8089 leads ... (more)

For years, the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society would operate their steam locomotive, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 4-8-4 3751, from its home in Los Angeles to San Bernardino becaus... (more)

Utah's Echo Canyon, site of countless Union Pacific Public Relations photos over the past 150 years ... well, at least 100! ... sees yet another train pass through.

Union Pacific Rail... (more)

Yet to Earn Its Wings... Idling on the Union Pacific's Dolores Industrial Lead, where power recently arrived from westbound trains sits awaiting their next assignment, are UP AC44... (more)

Due to a tunnel collapse in Oregon's Siskiyou Mountains, the Los Angeles to Seattle Coast Starlight has been operating as a much shorter train, since the southern half of the route has been... (more)

A Spectacular Crepuscular! Southern Pacific Railroad began construction on a new 560-acre railroad hump yard in the cities of Colton, Fontana and Rialto in 1971, and it was dedica... (more)

Amtrak 3 heads west from Chicago to Los Angeles. (Yorba Linda, California – May 17, 2025)

Metrolink San Bernardino Line train 351, with MP36PH-3C 900 shoving on the rear, departs the Claremont station on its way from San Bernardino to Los Angeles.

Built in 1927 by the Atchis... (more)

The first Northstar commuter train of the afternoon stops at the first station of its journey to Big Lake. MNRX MP36PH-3S 512, leading this four-car train, was originally owned by Utah’s Front ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner F59PHI 456 is about to take a spin on turntable in the carrier's Redondo Junction Engine Facility, as it is pulled from one of the whisker tracks and moved, via a R... (more)

Union Pacific ES44AC 7896, SD70ACe 8708 and SD70M 4609 cross the Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge 9.6, crossing from Oregon to Washington as it crosses the Columbia River. Also known as BNSF R... (more)