In the 1970s a lot of locomotives ended their time on the planet at Naporano Iron & Metal in Newark NJ. This is all that is left of Norfolk & Western C424 #421 two days before New Years. The engi... (more)

Canadian Pacific Royal Hudson (H1) #2839 sits outside of an amazing automobile museum (actually two of them, across the street from each other) in Sylmar, CA. While this is the Nethercutt Collecti... (more)

A couple bricks in the pit - two GE E44s await their next assignment in Meadows Yard in Kearny. This area was known as the pit and soil there was always black, but with poisonous looking rainbows ... (more)

Conrail PO87 is in Suffern Yard, passing by the fleet of "Bluebirds," NJDOT owned U34CHs... which power Conrail's commuter runs into Hoboken. Picture is taken from Route 59. The GP15-1s on this tr... (more)

On October 28, 1983, NJT took the last GG-1s out of revenue service. The following day, they ran several excursions from Matawan to Newark behind three remaining units. This was the Farewell to t... (more)

The Union Pacific's Coast Mesa Local is returning from its early morning work in Santa Ana. It is seen here accomplishing two rather odd railroad feats in modern day RRs. It is street running and ... (more)

A Metrolink film train, funded by Wabtec for quoting and bidding on a future Positive Train Control (PTC) system, is seen passing under the Sylmar Siphon and Cascade of the Los Angeles Aqueduct at... (more)

Most of Metrolink's remaining fleet of F59PHs, F59PHIs, F59PHRs, leased F59PHs, and one F40PH (buried) await their fait in Keller Yard. If any of you are really good at locomotive spotting, see if... (more)

The El Segundo Local rockets past a LA Metro Rail station with LA City Hall in the background as it gets ready to head out onto the branch.

A Mainline Electric Multiple Unit train heads south. MEMUs are narrower than standard EMUs, which allows them to operate throughout the system. In the three hours I was at Vasai, however, this was... (more)

The Benzini Brothers circus is in town! The Benzini Brothers circus is in town! McCloud River Baldwin Mikado #18 switches movie prop cars for the 20th Century Fox feature film "Water for Elephants... (more)

Three former Idaho Northern & Pacific GP40s await an unknown fate on the moribund Pacific Imperial Railroad after suffering a collision when they rolled unmanned into a bulkhead car. Their future ... (more)

This picture was taken from a rare passenger run over the "Tuajana e Tecate" sponsered by the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum. We are looking down from the top of the famous Redondo Loops at a ch... (more)

Taken during a tour of FFG 41 USS McClusky, the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station train sits on display at the station's Liberty Gate alongside Anaheim Bay. This location is usually off-limits to ... (more)

Running light after having shoved a set of international cars up to Inyokern on the remnants of the old UP Lone Pine Branch, the Trona turn heads back into Searles to build its train of empties.