Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 is finally heading home to Cheyenne, Wyoming, for restoration to operable condition. Train PWCYR2 28 (Passenger, West Colton Yard CA to Yermo CA) departed W... (more)

8098 isn't the only Norfolk Southern locomotive painted in Conrail paint! Nicknamed "The Bug" by Enola Yard's crews, this homebuilt locomotive shuttle was constructed by Conrail to move po... (more)

Union Pacific GP30B 726B leads (!) a westbound freight past the Amtrak (ex-Santa Fe) passenger station in San Bernardino. A GP30B/GP30 helper set was assigned to this train to assist the four SD4... (more)

Just when you think you've seen it all... As Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 4014 is ferried to West Colton Yard, a number of the steam crew members and a UP police officer take advantage of the emp... (more)

Santa Fe Railway's train 891, the Super C, heads eastward to Chicago as it crests Cajon Pass' Summit as it departs southern California on a snowy December 30, 1974. A quartet of SD45-2s, l... (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 many days... (more)

American Freedom Train 4-8-4 4449 (ex-SP GS-4 4449) passes through Camarillo, CA on New Year's Eve, 1975 on the way to the next display location — Santa Barbara. This is a companion to photo 1... (more)

Like a beached whale being picked apart by scavengers, one of Southern Pacific's three huge U50 diesels is dismantled at a scrapper at Pacific Terminals scrap yard in Long Beach, California. "Born... (more)

The changing of the guard - A batch of BNSF Railway Dash 8-40CW diesels has been sold to Canadian National. These engines were shipped from Commerce (near Los Angeles), where they were in ... (more)

The remnants of the Halloween night wreck in La Mirada are still being cleaned up on November 4, 1974. The remains of Penn Central bo... (more)

As part of the celebration of Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal's 50th Anniversary, cab units from the three original tenant railroads were posed next to each other to recreate a popular PR / p... (more)

SP SD35 6902 suffers an electrical fire as the train waits in the hole in Soledad Canyon west of Palmdale, CA on July 15, 1973. The crew never noticed the smoke pouring out of the second locomotiv... (more)

Santa Fe F7A 304L, wearing its new Yellow Warbonnet colors, leads Amtrak #778, an eastbound San Diegan (Los Angeles to San Diego). Built in October 1949, the 304L would be rebuilt as CF7 2... (more)

UP SD70M 2002 leads the Olympic Torch Relay Train on its journey carrying the Olympic Flame to the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.

On August 13, 1990, the Santa Fe Railway operated a special train on Cajon Pass for the filming of a promotional film for one of their large shipping container customers, A.P. Møller – Mærsk A... (more)