The unique ATSF "Beep" sits silently on display at the Western American Railroad Museum at Barstow's Amtrak station. This experimental rebuild combined a Baldwin VO-1000 with EMD Geep me... (more)

There is a short spur just west of the Fullerton Transportation Center, used occasionally to store Maintenance-of-Way equipment. Curiously, on this late August day, two locomotives were parked he... (more)

There is a short spur just west of the Fullerton Transportation Center, used occasionally to store Maintenance-of-Way equipment. Curiously, on this late August day, two locomotives were parked her... (more)

Today's Santa Fe. The historic Santa Fe Depot in San Diego, California was built in 1915 and is presently utilized by Amtrak/Amtrak California, Coaster, and SDMTS passengers. The legacy of ... (more)

BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4349 hustles hot intermodal train Z-LACNYC9-20A out of Los Angeles to eastward to New York City. Fullerton Junction, just east of Fullerton's Amtrak/Metrolink station, is the poi... (more)

Maybe the last time I saw a pure set of Warbonnets working a train ... descending Cajon Pass, passing under I-15 and bending south to head down the canyon, ATSF 112 and company handle a stack trai... (more)

Old signals and an old BNSF paint scheme are caught together in this more than a decade old photograph as a north bound BNSF manifest races off the Tehachapi grade at Sandcut on a warm spring afte... (more)

A pair of BNSF Geeps – GP60 161 (previously BNSF 8702, originally ATSF 4002) and GP60M 126 (formerly ATSF 126) – are getting prepped for use on the railway's Third La Mirada local, as a crewma... (more)

Held up a bit by a pair of late passenger trains (Amtrak 769 running 10 minutes late, and Metrolink 859 running 8 minutes behind because it had to wait for AMTK 769), BNSF High Priority Freight H-... (more)

Approaching the summit of Cajon Pass with a trio of ATSF's primary color schemes.

AT&SF, Santa Fe B40-8W 523-F45 5957-BN SD40-2 6348-AT&SF SD40-#5069 westbound over the bridge at Canyon Diablo, Arizona. April 12, 1998. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Burlington Northern, BN C30-7 5064 -BNSF C44-9w 1112 -SD40-2 7027 -8131 with a westbound on the ex-D&RGW at Desert Siding, Utah. April 18, 1997. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Eastbound BNSF manifest freight nears Riverbank Yard in California.

Double Stacks At Dusk | Three different generations of GE widecab locomotives pull an eastbound intermodal train through Pierce City, MO on the evening of Saturday, June 1, 2024.

BNSF's Everett to Longview Jct manifest winds its way along the coast of Puget Sound as it crosses Bridge 14 and approaches Sunnyside Beach. Meanwhile, a couple takes a walk along the narrow beach... (more)