Parked on the wye in the Union Pacific Railway’s West Anaheim Yard is UP ET44AC 2739, built by General Electric in September 2016. (Anaheim California – March 29, 2021)

I See the Bad Moon a-Rising…

A full moon rises in the eastern sky over a pair of Union Pacific GP60s. These four-axle locomotives were built in 1989 as hot power for intermodal ... (more)

Parked on the wye in the Union Pacific Railway’s West Anaheim Yard are UP ET44AC 2739 and ES44AC 8260. While each of these are different General Electric models, the UP classes them... (more)

Spending the night at the Union Pacific’s West Anaheim Yard is Kansas City de México ES44AC 4745, paired with UP SD70ACe-T4 3032. (Anaheim, California - March 28, 2021)

An empty Norfolk Southern coal train sits in the small yard near the Warrick Power Plant, awaiting a fresh crew to take it back to the mine for another load. UP front is NS SD70ACu 7320, while th... (more)

Built by the Santa Fe Railway in 1930, this Spanish Colonial Revival-style station replaced the town’s original 1888-built Victorian depot. Today, this station is owned by the Fullerton Redevelo... (more)

York Rail SW9 84 still wears the paint job from when it was Maryland & Pennsylvania 84. Before ending up on the Ma & Pa, this switcher was MTR 85, formerly Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 1243 and, origin... (more)

Amtrak train 667, a Keystone Service train heading from New York City to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, speeds through Paradise, PA, late in the day on September 28, 2013. Thirty-two-year-old A... (more)

At last light, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway* freight makes its way along the BNSF’s St. Paul Sub as it heads to the Dayton Bluffs Yard. Of the four locomotives, there is but one safety ... (more)

An 11,142-foot intermodal train, running just 37 hours 13 minutes late, passes through the station of Prado Dam, named for the adjacent Prado Dam (visible above the freeway signs on the lef... (more)

Metrolink train 808 (Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo to downtown San Bernardino) is back on Track 1 and about to cross McFadden Avenue after detouring on Track 2 through the Tustin station due to a po... (more)

Following a fairly minor derailment on the morning of March 17 the BNSF Railway contracted with Hulcher Services to rerail three diesels that hit the ties in Fullerton. The trailing engine, BNSF ... (more)

The crew from Transdev Rail, installing new rail and concrete ties on Metrolink’s Orange Sub, have paused their work as Metrolink train 600, behind F125 933, heading to Oceanside from Los Angeles,... (more)

The power for Union Pacific local LOA32 has run around its eleven-car train, and is now shoving the cars into the industrial complex near the end of the UP’s Santa Ana Industrial Lead. Former Cot... (more)

Metrolink F125 936 leads train 806 (Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo to San Bernardino) as it rolls into the Irvine station on the carrier’s Orange Sub. Shortly after departing this station the train ... (more)