Southern Pacific Daylight 4-8-4 4449, with SP SD40E 7342 as a helper, works up Cuesta Grade out of San Luis Obispo, California. This train, dubbed the World's Fair Daylight, is retu... (more)

Looking like a model train in the wrong scale, 3' gauge Palmetto Brick #2 pulls her 8-car train across the line's only grade crossing in Wallace, SC, on October 17, 2008. This line has since ceas... (more)

The Silver Bullet! If one had consumed enough Coors Light, seeing this speed by at a grade crossing might cause one to reconsider drinking! Valley Metro Rail LRV 143B heads west down Wash... (more)

One of three SP Bicentennial diesels...

Santa Fe's least photographed SD40-2! The remains of Santa Fe SD40-2 5037 lie in state at the San Bernardino diesel shop following an accident on nearby Cajon Pass. Delivered in October 1... (more)

Fatal Bumps and Bruises?

Sitting forlornly outside Amtrak's Beech Grove Shops is P42DC 66, damaged in a wreck involving a semi truck on February 19, 2016. This engine, wearing the ca... (more)

Heading into the setting sun, Union Pacific's Desert Storm diesel leads a westbound toward Victorville, CA. Cajon Pass and the terminus of Los Angeles lie ahead. UP SD40-2 3593 was originally UP 8... (more)

Union Pacific's Desert Storm diesel leads a westbound onto Santa Fe trackage for the last leg of its trip to Los Angeles. It will return to UP rails in Riverside, CA later that evening. UP SD40-... (more)

This looks worse than it actually was. BNSF train B-BIRLAC3-12A, a baretable train (empty intermodal cars), heading from Birmingham AL to Los Angeles, was going to set some of these cars out on a... (more)

A new model for the BNSF Railway, as they have purchased Progress Rail PR30C demonstrators 3002 through 3005. The first to be repainted is BNSF 1320, which is the former PRLX 3002, rebuilt with a... (more)

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 heads east through Maine, Arizona, on its way to Chicago on August 31, 1992.

Specially painted UP SD70ACe 1983 commemorates "Fallen Flag" railroad Western Pacific as it leads a three unit lashup from East Yard to the old SP Shops Yard, where it will pick up a train heading... (more)

Fresh from the paint shop, Santa Fe FP45s 101 and 102 model their newly applied "Superfleet" paint jobs just outside the San Bernardino station on IndependenceDay 1989. This resurrection of the fa... (more)

Santa Fe Railway’s flagship freight train, the hot Super C, has just begun its daily high-speed trip from Los Angeles to Chicago with a load of piggyback trailers on flat cars. One of th... (more)

A New Face in Town

An interesting little train passes through Fullerton, California, as the sun was rising on June 16th, 2016. This train originated at EMD's plant in Muncie, IN, an... (more)