Yes that train is moving, but school has also just let out and the tracks are very much everyone's path back home. The crew was very careful and moved quite slowly.

In Southern Pacific tradition, E9(A) #6051 is displaying its train number in the boards (for #99, the Coast Daylight). Shown here at the LAUPT 50th Anniversary, it was one of an order of nine E9(A... (more)

Referred to as the "Death Train" by a since retired crew member, the Torrance Local travels through some of LA's grittier areas and looks like it.

Two members of the Mumbai Railfans enjoy our universal hobby as a "freighter" slows for the required stop at Vasai Road. The locomotive, a Chittaranjan Locomotive Works model WAG-5 is adorned in w... (more)

Smoking up a storm, a D&H Alco RS36 pulls two of her younger siblings (two C628s) out of the Colonie Shops, aka Alco Heaven. Back in the late 1970s railfans were welcome at the Colonie Shops and a... (more)

A jogger ignores the Walker Repo train crossing the Los Angeles River on the La Habra Sub.Trains on this line are pretty rare these days, mostly repo moved, a few a month.

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS! A set of UP Gensets waits out the weekend on Myers Street team track in downtown Los Angeles. Sadly the three units have become a canvas for stupidity.

Substituting for a Budd Metroliner train set we have the recently restored Brunswick Green Pennsylvania RR GG1 and a string of Amfleet cars. This motor was returned to her former glory by a group ... (more)

A Delaware and Hudson and a Conrail boxcar sit out in a field after being involved in a derailment. Across the Hudson River is Breakneck Mountain.

Boy do I miss the Raritan River. Here we see one of their six cherry-condition SW900s getting ready to help re-rail a tank car that turned a rail. This little railroad was a wholly owned subsidia... (more)

Conrail's former Jersey Central Elizabethport Shops hosted poorly painted SW1500 #9573, former Erie Lackawanna SW9 #9013, and New Jersey DOT GP7 #5910 on this visit. I don't know why the SW1500 wa... (more)

ALCO Century 628 #6743 is missing all her front windows, as she sits on the dead line and suffers the indiginity of having become a parts source to keep other C628s running. She was delivered to ... (more)

Stormy skies loom over an older rake of Jessup EMUs bound from Virar to Borivali. As this train was not nearly as full as most had been that day, the folks hanging in the doorways are actually jus... (more)

Conrail passenger train with two FL9s showing both their NYNH&H and PC/MTA heritage, and a string of former Delaware & Hudson passenger cars heads out of town. The cars are ex Lackawanna Phoebe S... (more)

All aboard at Smith's Creek Depot! Weiser Railroad #1 is a replica Post-Civil War design American-style William Mason locomotive. It was built in 1932 at the Rouge Locomotive Shops in Detroit MI, ... (more)