Surf City became motorcar city for a weekend in May of 2013. This was the first time motorcars ran on the Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line and over 40 motorcars participated in the event. They journeye... (more)

American Motive Power Inc. had a Trackmobile and their home constructed shop switcher, constructed from a variety of locomotive parts that were on hand, completing what they jokingly call a SW10.5... (more)

A Pacific Surfliner occupies a crossing in downtown San Diego at sunset.

A Pacific Surfliner passes San Clemente Station and Pier in the evening, and the reflective lettering and stripes really stick out.

A Pacific Surfliner passes San Clemente Station and Pier as the sun sinks off in the horizon. There's nothing quite like a sunset in southern California.

A railfan's paradise... San Clemente offers wonderful beach views with plenty of train action. Even my wife and two boys enjoyed watching this Pacific Surfliner roll through the heart of this beac... (more)

NVR 72 leads the Napa Valley Wine Train's lunch train back to Napa, seen here at Oak Knall Ave. Napa, CA March 4th, 2018

Hastily patched ex-SSW GP60 1004 and two other UP GP60s pick their way down Quint Street in San Francisco, on their way to the SF Bay RR yard to pick up "dirty dirt" empties.

Union Pacific train HKB (Houston - KC - Bailey yard) passes Missouri Pacific's freight house in Denton, TX. The only object left in this scene besides the main track is the 186' Morrison Milling C... (more)

Built Like a Mack Truck

That phrase was very much a part of the fabric of Allentown, Pennsylvania, home of the world headquarters of Mack Trucks. Although I grew up about twenty mi... (more)

UP 1469 wobbles to and fro as it chases a Ford pickup truck down West Laurel Ave. while heading for the east side of town before doubling back up to the White Hills.

One of the MBTA's double-ended PCCs (acquired secondhand from Dallas) glides along South Street in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston on its way from downtown to the Arborway terminal. In old Bos... (more)

Still bearing the New Haven logo on its nose, Penn Central E40 4974 rumbles out of the Park Avenue tunnel at 97th Street with a northbound passenger run. On April 8,1970, a few hints of spring hov... (more)

The new Monday morning commute for the people of the affected areas of the coastside between Santa Barbara and the rest of Southern California. Hundreds of commuters out of their cars and discover... (more)