Built in April 1948, Union Pacific NW2 1083 is looking good in the railroad’s latest paint scheme, which features the railroads shield on the cab. UP 1083 has retained its original single chime a... (more)

After having headed east with its shoving platform (a former caboose) leading, BNSF Railway train R-CAL0081-05I, one of the many locals that originate at the railway’s La Mirada Yard, was heading ... (more)

BNSF shoving platform BN 12568, wearing a neatly applied if unauthorized graffiti scheme (complete with clear and legible reporting mark and roadnumber), brings up the rear of local R-CAL0162-28 a... (more)

An interesting power lashup, for sure! Let’s begin with the lead engine, BNSF 5726. The General Electric builder’s sticker lists this as an AC4400CW (which is also the marking BNSF applied to th... (more)

Rolling through Ono, at milepost 75 – 6½ miles railroad-east of San Bernardino – after having conquered Cajon Pass. This westbound freight is powered by GP35 3398, the former ATSF 1398, teamed wi... (more)

Southern California is, once again, seeing drought conditions thanks to a La Niña condition in the Pacific Ocean. A quick trip to the Post Office became a longer trip home when the signals at the... (more)

"May Gray" has changed into "June Gloom" (low-altitude stratus clouds which form over the cool water of the Pacific Ocean’s California Current, and spread overnight into the co... (more)

Union Pacific GP50 5517, the former Chicago & North Western 5060; leads a westbound intermodal train at Dominguez Junction on UP’s Basin Subdivision. Behind the 5517 is C30-7 419 (ex-UP 2419) and... (more)

A Southern Pacific freight heads west at 140-feet below sea level as it passes through southern California’s “Low Desert,” just 3 or 4 miles from the Salton Sea, and about 40 miles from the... (more)

Spotted in San Bernardino’s B Yard was waycar (what the Santa Fe called cabooses) 999630. This car was built in August 1948 (original four-digit number unknown), and rebuilt into a CE-3 class car... (more)

Santa Fe 9537, painted in the "Kodachrome" scheme for the proposed Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railway (a merger that was ultimately denied), leads an eastbound freight at May, on Santa Fe... (more)

A CSX freight slams across the diamonds as it travels through one of five through-truss steel bridges that span the Cal-Sag Channel in suburban Chicago. CSXT ES44DC 5231 and Dash 8-40CW 7718 are ... (more)

BNSF’s "Daygo," the freight to San Diego, cruises down Metrolink’s Orange Sub behind Dash 9-44CW 5032 and a pair of ET44C4s. This train, symbolled H-BARSDG1-27A; originated in Barstow a... (more)

At the eastern end of the Fullerton Transportation Center – the city’s Amtrak and Metrolink station – is Fullerton Junction. At this point, BNSF’s triple-track San Bernardino Sub reduces to just ... (more)

Oh … So the Flashing Red Lights Mean "Stop"?

As Southern Pacific's Huntington Beach Hauler was heading west (compass north) on the Stanton Branch back to Anaheim, at just ... (more)