It was the Seventies. A time when one could pull into a service station and the attendant would fill your tank, check the air and oil, and wipe your windshield. And all for 39.9¢ per gall... (more)

Chicago Burlington & Quincy SD9 346 was built by EMD in May 1955. By 1985, the 30-year-old locomotive had lost its signal lights and gained a Cascade Green and black paint job for subsequent owne... (more)

The morning's "May Gray" overcast has just burned off and it is a pleasant 73ºF (23ºC) as BNSF Railway's freight to San Diego, the H-BARSDG1-17A, passes through the Metrolink station (... (more)

The conductor on Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 785 (San Diego to Goleta) has detrained in order to flag the Palm Avenue grade crossing on Metrolink’s Orange Sub. This train is running about 9... (more)

Dropping down the original California Southern Railroad 1885-built grade across Cajon Pass, Santa Fe C30-7 8094, SD45 5396, SD40-2 5206 and Burlington Northern SD40-2 6353 are a nice mix of diesel... (more)

Southern Pacific U33C 8707, built in late 1971 by General Electric, sits in the railroad's West Colton Yard. This order, SP 8688 through 8727 (as well as the following order, 8728 through 8737), ... (more)

BNSF train U-FTMKCK1-16 (a Fort Madison, IA to Kansas City, KS unit train of wind generators) pauses at the railroad's 10th Street Yard. The train is headed for interchange with the Union Pacific... (more)

Locomotives are needed in Los Angeles, which explains why BNSF Railway D-BARLAC3-09 (Light Engines, Barstow CA to Los Angeles CA) speeds through Basta, at milepost 163 (two miles west of Fullerton... (more)

It is 4:40 pm (16:40) and, as happens so often in the Midwest, a thunderstorm is blowing into town. The first band of rain has let up as a trio of Union Pacific AC4400CWs (5921, 6807 and 6789) pu... (more)

With the morning "passenger rush" over, BNSF Railway train Z-LACNYC1-13U, about 25 miles into its journey from Los Angeles to New York, speeds eastward on BNSF’s San Bernardino Sub. B... (more)

Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 508 switches a cut of autoracks at Amtrak’s Sanford Auto Train Station. Southbound Auto Train number 52 arrived thirty minutes earlier, and several Amtrak Dash 8-32BWHs are ... (more)

Norfolk Southern train W14 passes the Amtrak station in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on October 4, 2015. Norfolk Southern's "Norfolk & Western Heritage" unit, ES44AC 8103, is leading this train, along wi... (more)

Rolling toward San Diego on Metrolink’s 5½-mile long Olive Sub, BNSF train H-BARSDG1-11A is about the pass from Anaheim into the city of Orange as it crosses the Santa Ana River. (Fun fact: T... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 562 departs the station in Fullerton as it heads to San Diego from Los Angeles. This train will cross from Track 1 to Track 3 at Fullerton Junction, which it is no... (more)

Union Pacific's Costa Mesa Local, UP LOA32, heads from Anaheim to Santa Ana via Metrolink's Orange Sub behind UP GP40P-2 (one of only three ever built) and GP60 1083 pulling ten cars (2 covered ho... (more)