A southbound Union Pacific freight sits in Mojave, on UP’s Mojave Sub. This train is powered by a quartet of SD70ACe locomotives: UP 8465, 8500, 8482 and 8455. In the distance is a Burlington ... (more)

A constant parade of short-distance passenger trains (Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners and Metrolink's commuter trains) passing through Fullerton, California, is broken up by only one pair of lo... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 784 departs Fullerton as the train heads for San Diego from Goleta. CDTX SC-44 2119 has the six-car train in tow this evening. (Fullerton, California – January ... (more)

Backing down to run around its train is Strasburg Railroad 2-6-0 89. This Mogul was built by Canadian Locomotive Company in February 1910 as Grand Trunk 1009. It was later renumbered GT 911, and... (more)

Chicago Transit Authority's Tower 18 controls movements on a number of Chicago CTA "El" lines (Green, Pink, Brown and Purple) in the Loop area. On the last evening of September, an Oran... (more)

The distinctive four-windshield face of a General Electric Dash 8-40CM, in this instance Canadian National Railway 2408, was found in the railway's Woodcrest Locomotive Shops some 28 years after i... (more)

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 whistles as it meets an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train at Casa Blanca, four miles west of the Riverside Amtrak/Metrolink station. The steam engine i... (more)

A southbound CSX merchandise train, led by ES44DC 5248 and leased HLCX SD40-2 6209 (originally BCOL 741), winds its way along the western shore of New York's Hudson River (CSX's River Sub). The po... (more)

Cotton Belt 60' flat car 854668, carrying a pair of M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), was built by Greenville Steel Car in April 1969. The Cotton Belt's parent company, Southern Pacifi... (more)

Traveling down the middle of Long Beach Boulevard is Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Agency Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) 1120, built in 2014-2020 by Japan’s Kinki Sharyo. This train is carrying co... (more)

San Diego Metropolitan Transit System 1016, a Siemens Duewag U2 light rail vehicle, passes the classic 95-year-old Santa Fe Depot as it heads "Not in Service" to, most likely, the yard. ... (more)

This is only the fourth Amtrak train 4, the Southwest Chief, to load its initial load of passengers in Fullerton rather than Los Angeles. This was due to a four-day shutdown of the trackag... (more)

BNSF Railway train Z-CHCDEN9-10 (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal; Chicago IL - Denver CO) rushes across Camp Creek. Behind the usual BNSF power (ES44C4 8039, ES44C4 6956, ES44DC 7283 and Dash 9-44CW ... (more)

A pair of westbound BNSF Railway trains descend Cajon Pass, and one overtakes the other at CP Walker. BNSF’s California Division Christmas Train, symboled O-SBDSBD2-12A, heads downgrade after r... (more)

A pair of General Electric demonstrators, GECX 2025 and 2037, sit in the small engine facility in BNSF Railway's San Bernardino A Yard. These test locomotives were either ES44AC, ES44A6, ES44C6 o... (more)