Canada Invades San Bernardino. On a beautiful, clear winter's day in Southern California, a colorful BNSF manifest passes the original, 1918 built San Bernardino depot. Bringing up the rear... (more)

UP 5118, looking sharp in fresh paint, leads a westbound local off the ACTA Alameda Corridor Subdivision and onto one of the outside leads adjacent to the Alameda Corridor as an Amtrak Pacific Sur... (more)

The beautifully restored ATSF 2926 gleams in the evening light as part of New Mexico Heritage Rail's first professional night photo session with the locomotive at the old, downtown Santa Fe Rail Y... (more)

Santa Fe Heritage Meets. ATSF 5704 baths in the morning sunlight at Los Angeles Union Station adjacent to an older Santa Fe predecessor, the Santa Fe 3751. Both locomotives, along with a BN... (more)

BNSF 7919 and four sister General Electric locomotives, with assistance from a visiting Norfolk Southern SD70ACe, work upgrade out of Tunnel 5 and into Cliff with a heavy steel coil train.

It's just after sunset as Santa Maria Valley GP9, No. 1801, switches out industries at the end of the Airbase Branch on the Santa Maria Valley Railroad. Today has been a busy day for the crew was ... (more)

Looking Good at 20. Looking almost factory fresh despite some mild grime on its cowl, a 20-year-old BNSF 5239 leads a Newton, Kansas to Modesto, California, manifest into Shafter, Californi... (more)

As the sun slowly begins its descent to the horizon to close out another day in California's Central Valley, Amtrak 712 races south out of Wasco toward its final destination of Bakersfield.

Plying the same right-of-way once graced by the Southern Pacific's famous Daylight passenger trains, today's Coast Starlight begins to bite into the grade of Santa Susana Pass as it ... (more)

The Day 2926 Escaped The Gate. May 6, 2023, will go down in history as the day that Santa Fe 2926 officially "escaped the gate," a phrase coined by the New Mexico Steam Locomotive... (more)

The headlight of Santa Fe 2926 rests at dim as the locomotive sits on display at the 4th Street grade crossing, located on Rio Metro Regional Transit District's "Sawmill Spur." In a few ... (more)

Santa Fe 2926 poses atop the 4th Street grade crossing while on hot display during a fundraising event. The move of the locomotive on this day marked the first time 2926 moved out of its restorati... (more)

If You Restore It...They Will Come. A swarm of onlookers fill the roadway at the 4th Street grade crossing as Santa Fe 2926 simmers on hot display after making the great escape from the New... (more)

To The Rescue. UP 6699, a General Electric AC44CW built in August of 1997, leads the WSBHDS-12 north as it rolls through the Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve under threatening skies. This... (more)

BNSF 3760 leads a southbound (railroad eastbound) manifest through Illmon as it begins its assult on Tehachapi.