As the result of venturing into unfamiliar territory, featured here is an image that's been on my bucket-list for quite some time. Running as advertised, we see Amtrak’s Southwest Chief #3 at Ga... (more)

2 units lead a eastbound/southbound Pacific Surfliner into Fullerton for it's station stop.

Amtrak Veterans painted Cabbage 90208 leads train 573, running with 2 PV's for Pearl Harbor Day as it passes through Fullerton at Basta heading west towards Los Angeles.

Running well over 9 hours off of its advertised schedule, train #3 the westbound Southwest Chief puts in a rare daylight appearance out in the desert as it approaches Ludlow with a BNSF unit lendi... (more)

When the meteorologists in the Seattle area started talking about a Winter Storm Warning on Stevens Pass, it made contributors Dale Skyllingstad and Drew Mitchem and myself pack up and make the de... (more)

A loaded Herzog ballast train with a CREX leader on BNSF's 3M spur that branches off the busy San Bernardino Sub mainline at Porphyry. This 3 mile long branch was lightly used until recently. Now ... (more)

The early morning sun begins to rise over the hills of Hackberry as a Z7 intermodal train bound for San Bernardino, CA races across the Arizona desert.

Slowly crawling up the 1.5 percent grade of the Arizona, a heavy Q CHISTO6 struggles to reach Darling as hot UPS trains are rapidly approaching behind it.

A Los Angeles, CA to Chicago, IL intermodal train can be heard for minutes before the headlights can be seen as the four locomotives are working as hard as they to make it over the Arizona Divide.... (more)

Boaters enjoy being on the cool water of the Colorado River while BNSF's "Gold Bar" unit leads a westbound Z-train over the famous bridge into California on a 111 degree day.

After waiting in the siding for a northbound train to pass, the Bakersfield to Barstow BNSF manifest (running under UP symbol MBKBAJ 28 since it is on UP tracks) slowly starts to move as it tries ... (more)

Two of Union Pacific's newest SD70AH locomotives are pulling a seventeen car long passenger special towards the summit of Beaumont Hill, near Banning, as the sun begins to rise and warm cool air o... (more)

A BNSF SD70ACe, a rare sight in the LA Basin, and two CSX units are the only power on a Global 4, IL to Long Beach (ICTF), CA intermodal train over Beaumont Hill as it begins it's to head down gra... (more)

I had grand plans this afternoon to catch the eastbound California Zephyr as it rounded the curve at Crescent amid snow-laden pines with a glorious sunset over the continental divide in the backgr... (more)

A narrow nosed NS C40 leads a westbound ICTF bound baretable out of San Timoteo Canyon at Redlands.