An Unexpected Delay

As Southern Pacific's Huntington Beach Hauler was heading west (compass north) on the Stanton Branch back to Anaheim, at just 25 miles per hour, a moro... (more)

Amtrak train 36, the eastbound Desert Wind, pauses at the station in Fullerton, California, on October 6, 1994. Amtrak Dash 8-40BWH 803 will power this five-car train on its trip from Los ... (more)

Ten months, almost to the day, after the Union Pacific officially took over ownership if the mighty Southern Pacific, a trio of still-unrenumbered AC4400CWs, among the last locomotives purchased b... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe freight circumnavigates the famed Tehachapi Loop as it climbs out of California’s San Joaquin Valley and up into the Mojave Desert. ATSF U36C 8716 leads this train, followed... (more)

Metrolink’s newest service serves the Perris Valley, southeast of Riverside, opened on June 6, 2016. Train 708 is a "91/Perris Valley Line" train, and is seen making the third stop on i... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-NYCLAC of late has often had either solid Norfolk Southern power, or mixed NS/BNSF power with the NS units on the point. Such was the case again as this New York to Los Angel... (more)

BNSF Railway 3GS21C-DE 1313 heads east at the Commerce Diesel Facility to pick up an intermodal well car in order to shove it back to Hobart Yard. Contrary to what is stated on the book BNSF R... (more)

Union Pacific SD60M 6334 was built by EMD in September 1992. The UP later renumbered it to 2489. It was one of several SD60Ms selected to be rebuilt into an SD59M-2 (also called an SD22ECO by so... (more)

Passing through downtown Birmingham is a Norfolk Southern eastbound with a quartet of clean diesels with interesting lineage: SD40-2 3201 (ex-Southern Railway 3201), SD40-2 6171 (ex-Norfolk & Wes... (more)

BNSF 127, the former Santa Fe 127, is half of a pair of GP60Ms handling a cut of loaded intermodal well cars in Commerce, although the train is being backed into Hobart Yard in Vernon, seen in the... (more)

Near the southern end of the Union Pacific’s Santa Ana Industrial Lead, UP train LOA32 switches some industries (most notably, Behr Paint). UP GP60s 1083 (ex-UP 1953, née-SSW 9651) and 1105 (ex-U... (more)

On a day when 73% of the United States was covered with snow, much of it deep, along with freezing temperatures, winds, tornados and power outages, southern California was a pleasant 66ºF and the ... (more)

This ConAgra SW1200, working the Gavilon Grain elevator in Saginaw, Texas, rolled out of General Motors Diesel’s London, Ontario, factory as Canadian National 1317, but after service on the CN, it... (more)

Spending the night in Union Pacific’s West Anaheim Yard are BNSF ES44DC 7762, ES44C4 3744 and ES44DC 7759. Somehow these engines were assigned to the UP hauler from West Colton to Anaheim and bac... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe freight descends Cajon Pass as the sun is about to drop behind the San Gabriel Mountains, bringing a day of railfanning to an end. ATSF C30-7 8160 leads a five-engine consist... (more)