Come along with Trains Magazine and the Locomotive 2016 annual as we take a look at train watching in Fullerton, Calif.! This bona fide Hot Spots location is featured in the latest installment of our motive power special issue! You’ll see modern diesels from Amtrak, BNSF Railway, and Metrolink as they thread their trains through […]
A westbound Union Pacific manifest freight works its way toward Los Angeles in October 2013 in the “Blue Cut” section of California’s famed Cajon Pass. With the lead locomotives a mile away in the distance, you gain a better perspective of magnitude of the San Gabriel Mountains and the challenges railroads overcame more than […]
A recent photograph of a Swiss-built Stadler bilevel EMU that the rail supplier will begin making for Caltrain commuter rail services. Stadler U.S. Swiss railcar building Stadler says it received the contract to design and manufacture 16 six-car KISS bilevel electric multiple-unit trains for Caltrain in California. The contract, with an option for an additional […]
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Desert Line Railroad route map San Diego Metropolitan Transit System SAN DIEGO — An agreement has been reached to pay for the reconstruction and operation of the 70-mile Desert Line railway in southeastern San Diego County that connects Mexico-based, but foreign-owned factories, to rail shipping in the United States. The landmark agreement between Pacific Imperial […]
Kevin Dorm Union Pacific’s former Southern Pacific rotary snowplow SPMW No. 207 cuts its teeth for the first time this week after laying up since a 2014 rebuild. The rotary and B-unit arrived in Roseville, Calif., in early 2014 after upgrades at Iowa’s Relco locomotive shops. But due to lack of snow and teething issues related […]
Check out this layout tour of Dean Ferris’ 25′ x 28′ N scale proto-lanced Northern Pacific-Great Northern mainline connecting the Pacific Northwest to Nevada/Calfifornia, just prior to the 1970 Burlington Northern merger. […]
Check out this layout tour of Dean Ferris’ 25′ x 28′ N scale proto-lanced Northern Pacific-Great Northern mainline connecting the Pacific Northwest to Nevada/Calfifornia, just prior to the 1970 Burlington Northern merger. […]
A railfan went to Eureka, Calif., to see SD9s, but it’s the flowers at a memorial that made an impression. David Lustig photo It was the lure of the machinery that first attracted me to trains. But technology is nothing without people to operate it, and I suppose it’s a side effect of the aging […]
Brian Moore added an extra four feet of boards to both ends of his module to make it 24 feet long. More industry and MoW at one end and some street running at the other. […]
Brian Moore added an extra four feet of boards to both ends of his module to make it 24 feet long. More industry and MoW at one end and some street running at the other. […]
An early-1904s view of the Santa Fe’s big freight yard at Barstow, Calif., shows, at the left side of the photo, war materiel on flatcars. Santa Fe photo […]
