Interesting Up Front … And on the Rear!

Accelerating out of Fullerton as it heads to Los Angeles from Chicago, is Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief. This s... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe FP45 5992 (ex-5942, nee-102), teamed with FP45s 5991 and 5998, is on the point of a 14-car Analysts' Special climbing Cajon Pass as the train heads from San Diego to Bak... (more)

As BNSF Railway ethanol unit train U-HERWAT7-22A makes its way to Watson, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, from Hereford, Texas, it meets BNSF train B-LACLAC6-26D (Los Angeles to Full... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train H-KCRI1-23 rolls into Barstow, where the crew that has handled this train across the Needles Sub, having boarded in Needles, will get off to allow a fres... (more)

Roughly 7½ hours earlier, at 6:12 am, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 774 departed San Luis Obispo for San Diego. A little over two-thirds of the way there, CDTX SC-44 2122 and its six-car train... (more)

As Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 slowly makes its way toward the Metrolink mainline at the northern end of the Fairplex (location of the Los Angeles County Fair), a process that will take... (more)

The crew on BNSF Railway train M-BARLAC1-05A has their sun visors down as the train heads west into the setting sun on its way from Barstow CA to Hobart Yard in Los Angeles. BNSF ES44DCs 7718, 77... (more)

Rolling west through Basta toward the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is a BNSF intermodal train. Santa Fe GP60 4021, not yet rebranded with BNSF reporting marks, teamed with an ATSF Dash 8-4... (more)

As Metro-North Hudson Line train 717 departs the Harlem-125th Street station behind P32AC-DM 226, bound for Croton-Harmon, Metro-North Hudson Line train 842 approaches the station heading to Grand... (more)

Pond is an unincorporated community in California's Kern County, in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley. It is located 8.5 miles (14 km) north of Wasco. Pond was established around 1889, and a p... (more)

106 years after the famed Hell Gate Bridge opened, the bridge still impresses (although it could stand a new coat of paint). Crossing the bridge in this view is Amtrak Northeast Regional t... (more)

Shortly after sunrise, Metro-North Commuter Railroad train 816, heading from Poughkeepsie to New York City's Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, crosses from Track 2 to Track 1 as it passes throu... (more)

Bringing up the markers – literally – on a westbound Southern Pacific freight is SP C50-7 4626. Built by Pacific Car & Foundry from April to August 1978, this bay-window caboose was only few ... (more)

A Lexington Avenue Local, the 6 train, heads south from Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx to the Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall Station in Manhattan, crossing the Bronx River as it does. The Bronx River ... (more)

A New York City Transit 3 Train departs the Pennsylvania Avenue Station, in Brooklyn, on its way from Brooklyn to Harlem. This train is made up of Kawasaki R62 cars, with NYCT 1565 leading and NY... (more)