The heritage of this unit is ... Anyone? Anyone? ... Union Pacific 3415.

Carrying a full load of coal for the day's trip to Ogden, the crew of Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 3985 is making sure everything is ready to go before they head out of Salt Lake City's engine facility o... (more)

Southern Pacific GP40P-2 3197, resplendent in its Bicentennial colors (the second of three SP units so painted), rushes weary commuters home as it heads from San Francisco to San Jose on August 28... (more)

Two days after the official dedication ceremony, Metrolink F59PH 851 leads a test train through Fullerton on its way to Oceanside. Regular service would begin later that year. (The warehouse in ... (more)

In the 1970s, the Southern Pacific railroad was predictably unpredictable – One never knew what one might find when railfanning the SP. And it got even more interesting for a few years when the... (more)

In a haze of blue exhaust, an eastbound Union Pacific freight departs North Platte and begins to accelerate as it clears the big yard’s Yard Limit. UP U30C 2923 is teamed with a GP30, and the t... (more)

Looking a bit dirty, Cotton Belt SD45T-2 9389, the Southern Pacific's first Bicentennial engine, prepares to depart SP's West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, with an eastbound freight on J... (more)

Think of refrigerator cars, and most railfans first think of Pacific Fruit Express, the joint venture of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. But for some of us, the Santa Fe's large fleet of refr... (more)

Amtrak train 14, the northbound ("westbound" on the Southern Pacific’s Los Angeles Division) makes it stop in San Luis Obispo as it makes its way from Los Angeles to Seattle. A pair of recently... (more)

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 exits Tunnel 2, between Bealville and Caliente in the Tehachapi Mountains, as train OLACSAE1-13 heads from Los Angeles to Sacramento.

Brookville Equipment Corporation BL20CG 259 (rebuilt from MEC GP38 259) is seen here demonstrating on the Pacific Harbor Line in southern California on April 4, 2009. This is the second day of a ... (more)

Before Metrolink, commuter trains operated for a short time into Los Angeles from Ventura County. Seen here is one of the trains, with Amtrak power and leased Chicago RTA cars, headed to LA as it... (more)

Because the Santa Fe had no direct rail connection to the San Francisco Peninsula, the railroad rostered a fleet of three tugboats to ferry cars on barges across San Francisco Bay. The last of th... (more)

Chicago Burlington & Quincy E5A 9911A "Silver Pilot" gleams in the sun, along with a train of restored Italic Nebraska Zephyr cars, at the EMD factory 75th anniversary open house in La Gran... (more)

Well, good news! The derail works!

Just over two hours earlier, at 7:00, this Union Pacific switch job derailed as it was bringing a cut of cars forward (eastward) to cle... (more)