BNSF SD70ACe 9201 leads a trio of units bound for Oakdale Ca.

BNSF SD70ACe 9201 leads a trio of units on Union Pacific's Oakdale Branch to retrieve intermodal carloads at Oakdale Ca.

8711 leads UP SD60 6034.

These is a lot that is out of the ordinary here…

(1) On the left is an intermodal train (BNSF S-CDZSCO1-29L) with a Grinstein Green and Cream SD70MAC, not a usual visitor to southern ... (more)

A somewhat rare daylight move of a San Diego-bound freight, BNSF H-BARSDG1-25A, occurred when the train transitioned off Metrolink’s Olive Sub and onto Metrolink’s Orange Sub at 11:00 am, as A... (more)

A former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway baggage car, demoted to Maintenance of Way service and renumbered ATSF 205998, sits in Devore, and the base of Cajon Pass. (Devore, California – Marc... (more)

Nearly at the summit.

Santa Fe RSD-15 "Alligator" #847 leads four units on a westbound symbol train out of Summit in September 1969. Alco RSD-15 #847 with 2400 hp was built in 1960, Santa Fe rostered the... (more)

GP50 3850 and GP39-2 3676 were taken off a westbound to rescue a stalled eastbound at Bealville. Here the cavalcade emerges from Tunnel 5 into the rapidly fading evening light. Photo 654631 shows ... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal climbs the grade towards Tehachapi.

A BNSF local job heads past a puddle from the heavy rains on its run from El Segundo to Wilmington. The lead unit is an ultra-rare GP40X (now with its turbo pinned, it's classed a GP25).

The Watson to El Segundo local returns towards Watson, passing over Artesia Blvd in Lawndale. I removed a wire that made this shot impossible in film days. While I was at it, I removed some taggin... (more)

Bringing up the markers on a Burlington Northern Santa Fe local heading east through Basta is Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe way car 999716. These cabooses were built in 1978. (Fullerton, California... (more)

Several patched diesels sit in Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway’s Watson Yard, in Los Angeles’ Wilmington neighborhood. BNSF SD40-2 7847 was built in July 1978 (27 years earlier) as Color... (more)

Within the darkened depths of the Caliente Canyon, on a cool fall afternoon, is a south bound BNSF manifest slowly battling its way up through the switch back curves and only minutes from the town... (more)