The eastbound Bly Turn backs into the East Switchback. Lead unit OCE 7602 started out life as GE U25B demonstrator 2501.
Some Dispatchers are Better than OthersOn May 28, 2017, BNSF Railway train H-BARSDG1-28 was heading from Barstow to San Diego when it was held at Atwood, an old station in eastern A... (more)
Due to having one helper unit and one road unit quit at Cuesta Grade in San Luis Obispo County, the Cans are late on this Memorial Day. The cans were doubled down from Santa Margarita to San Luis ... (more)
A couple visitors to the beaches of San Clemente gaze up at a late, daylight H-BARSDG1 as the train rolls along the Pacific Ocean on the ex-ATSF "Surf Line".
The Veterans Cabbage leads 583 from San Diego to LA as the train passes CP-Olympic and begins the short trek along the LA River. On the left is the east bank of Metrolink's River Sub while the Ala... (more)
The three pm BNSF dock job heads out of Berth 200 yard with a myriad of refinery towers behind it, as it makes a light run to Trapac.
From the rugged hills of Tehachapi Pass and Cajon Pass to the sea spray of the coast line, this Union Pacific business car train saw it all, all within a 24 hour period. Beginning the morning in B... (more)
Some decent looking Dash9's lead the BARCLIFF and its 70 car train northbound towards Bakersfield.
A long Roseville to West Colton manifest works through Bealville in the late morning.
A Union Pacific special train rolls through Emma Wood State Park. The train originated In Oregon, traveled down through Northern California, over the Tehachapi Mountains and the Palmdale Cutoff wh... (more)
UP 1205 (GP39-2) pulls a string of oil cans to a refinery in Commerce City, Colorado as a BNSF freight heads to Denver on the Brush Sub.
Amtrak No. 14, the Coast Starlight, highballs westbound through the ranch lands of the Gaviota Coast west of Santa Barbara.
Nearing the top of Cajon Pass, CSXT #7860 east is in command of an empty UP ballast train heading to Utah as it passes the Silverwood control point and begins to round the big curve approaching Su... (more)
Roster view of brand new BNSF 3733 at Vail Ave. on the San Bernardino Subdivision in the City of Commerce.
Union Pacific coal rolls west through Oroville.