A wreck on the Southern Pacific in Arizona has necessitated some of their hotter trains to detour on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe in order to reach southern California. SP SD45R 7498 (ex-SP SD4... (more)

As Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District train 14 heads from South Shore, Indiana, to Chicago, Illinois, the six-car train, comprised of Nippon Sharyo EMU cars, approaches the railroad... (more)

Bisecting Chapman University is Metrolink train 604, heading to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo from Los Angeles. (Train 604 normally goes all the way to Oceanside, but unstable ground under the main... (more)

Heading north across the Siene River is a Self-Governance Paris Transport (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens - RATP) 6 Line train. RATP MP 73 car 6546 leads the way from the Nation ... (more)

At 5:34 am, the Sunset Limited should just be arriving at its final destination. But thanks to some generous schedule padding, the Sunset has already been in Los Angeles for nearly ... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway SD45 5600, SD45 5548 and SD45-2 5701 (still wearing its Bicentennial colors) move a westbound freight past the cantilever signals at milepost 164 on its way to L... (more)

A westbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe freight passes over California Highway 4, the John Muir Parkway, at what the railroad has named Collier. Heading for the ATSF yard in Richmond, this train i... (more)

The day started off with 2½-inches of rain, but by 16:30 (4:30 pm) the precipitation had ceased long enough ago that the sun had come out by the time Metrolink train 609 rolled past Depot Park an... (more)

Locomotive Leasing Partners GP38-2 2238 pulls a string of autoracks along the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul. LLPX 2238 is the former Long Island Railroad 255. This train, viewed from Ha... (more)

Built by the American Locomotive Company in June 1955 as Southern Pacific 1050, this T-6 locomotive was renumbered 1217 in 1965. With 82 on the roster, SP owned more ALCO S-6 locomotives than any... (more)

Sitting in the north end of Union Pacific’s Dolores Yard is 21,600 horsepower, resting after arriving on a westbound and later being called for an eastbound. Besides providing the muscle, CSX T... (more)

A pair of BNSF Railway locals meet on the Norfolk Southern’s Kansas City District (of the Illinois Division), which connects to the BNSF Brookfield Sub just to the left of here … BNSF GP39E 29... (more)

On the eleventh day of operation for Washington DC's new streetcar line, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority LRV 202 makes a stop a H Street (at Union Station), one end of the 2.2-mile ... (more)

Making its stop in Orange is a southbound Metrolink Orange County Line train, behind F59PH 853. (Orange, California – August 20, 2014)

The first Amtrak train 4 of the new year makes the first stop of its journey. Just a few miles out of Los Angeles, Amtrak P42DCs 206 and 131 are pulling six cars (39038, 23086, 38048, 33009, 3410... (more)