ATN Train Y103 heads northbound through Irondale, AL. with a colorful locomotive consist.

Norfolk Southern's Nickel Plate heritage locomotive #8100 is seen here stopped at 27th street in Birmingham, AL. in the lead of train 346.

Norfolk Southern's Nickel Plate heritage locomotive #8100 leads train 346 northbound through downtown Birmingham, AL.

San Diego-bound Amtrak San Diegan 772 makes its first stop, in Fullerton, after departing Los Angeles. Eleven-month-old Amtrak SDP40F 527, with a lot of dirt on it, as well as the trademar... (more)

Another CPKC locomotive is brought out of the inspection booth at Wabtec.

A pair of BNSF Railway diesels, ET44C4 3755 and ES44C4 7014, are tucked away on the trackage connecting the railway's San Bernardino Sub in Commerce (a city in which every building pretty much loo... (more)

Union Pacific GP40-2 1394, the former Saint Louis-Southwestern (Cotton Belt) 7638, sits in the UP's J Yard south of downtown Los Angeles. As with so many Union Pacific locomotive assigned to urba... (more)

BNSF Railway "High Priority" freight train H-BARWAT1-31A passes the railroad's Hobart Yard ("Los Angeles" on the railway, adn these days all intermodal traffic) as it heads dow... (more)

UP 7490 leads an eastbound mixed freight.

BNSF train F-T2191-05 sitting in Williams AZ. BNSF ES44C4s 8353 and 7160 and ... wait a minute! Where is the car? These two were pulling an FRA Test Car, and yet ...

Well, crud! Th... (more)

A pounding rain falls as Western Maryland 1309 leads an evening excursion around Helmstetter’s Curve in La Vale, MD.

"HHPc Qualifications @ NYP"

On the afternoon of April 5, 2025, Amtrak’s Bombardier HHPc Non-Powered Control Unit (NPCU) #9750 leads Qualification Extra Train 874 at New Yo... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway GP30 3277 (ex-ATSF 1277) and GP35 3328 (ex-ATSF 1328) head toward Cajon Pass with just two tank cars (and a way car [or caboose to most other railroads]) in tow.... (more)

San Joaquin Valley Railroad GP40 440 was built by EMD in October 1966 as Milwaukee Road 197, later renumbered MILW 2023. Thanks to the bankruptcy of the MILW, the railroad was merged into Soo Lin... (more)

NS 1167 & NS 9816 power a westbound UP manifest.