After setting out a string of tank cars in the town of Yuma, BNSF local L-PWR6131-11I continues its westward journey with 33 cars behind "GP39-3" 2548 (built by General Motors Electro-Mo... (more)

On a 97ºF (36ºC) afternoon, a pair of BNSF Railway diesels handling locals out of northeastern Colorado await their next assignment. On the left is "GP39-3" 2549 (originally a 1962-bu... (more)

Exiting the west end of Crozier Canyon is BNSF Railway train Z-WSPSBD3-05A, a Willow Springs IL to San Bernardino CA Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train. BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4183, ES44C4 6782, ES44C4 ... (more)

After arriving with its train, Strasburg Railroad 2-10-0 90 has cut off the train and is backing toward the water tower in preparation of its next run. Number 90 is the former Great Western Railw... (more)

Rolling past Union Pacific's Ozol Yard is Amtrak train 710, a San Joaquin heading form Oakland's Jack London Square to Bakersfield. This train consists of California Department of Transpor... (more)

One of several Metro-North Commuter Railroad 40th Anniversary commemorative locomotives, dual-mode P32AC-DM 201, painted to honor predecessor Conrail's blue and yellow paint scheme (inherited from... (more)

Honoring one of NJ Transit’s predecessor railroads, the Erie Railroad, is NJTR GP40PH-2B 4210. This locomotive emerged from General Motors Electro-Motive Division’s factory in suburban Chicag... (more)

Metro-North Railroad F40PH-3C 4912 pulls train 1055 out of Hoboken Terminal as it heads New Jersey Transit’s Montclair-Boonton Line to Mount Olive NJ. This diesel was built by EMD as NJTR F40PH... (more)

This Railpower Technologies (RPI) RP20BD locomotive, numbered 5406, carries no visible reporting mark, so conventional wisdom has it as a Foster Farms (FPFX) unit. Then again, it could also be ow... (more)

The Atlas Model Railroad Company began operating in 1924, and thus this year, 2024, is their 100th Anniversary. Halfway through this year, I was fortunate enough to catch NJ Transit ALP-45DP 4503... (more)

One of Metro-North Commuter Railroad's 40th Anniversary commemorative locomotives, dual-mode P32AC-DM 217, painted to honor predecessor Penn Central's colorful paint applied to the old FL9 locomot... (more)

Sandrini, at milepost 927 on BNSF Railway's Bakersfield Sub, is a rather lonely place located in California's southern San Joaquin Valley. And it is here where we find southbound (eastbound on th... (more)

Hoboken Terminal is a commuter-oriented intermodal passenger station in Hoboken, New Jersey. One of the New York metropolitan area's major transportation hubs, it is served by eight NJ Transit (NJ... (more)

The "Franklin Avenue Shuttle" is a New York City Subway shuttle service operating in Brooklyn, using the BMT Franklin Avenue Line exclusively. The northern terminus, seen here, is Frankl... (more)

Rolling into the New York subway's Myrtle Avenue Station in Bushwick, Brooklyn, is an M Train ("Queens Boulevard local / 6 Avenue local / Myrtle Avenue local"), consisting of R160A cars ... (more)