As BNSF's S-LPCLBE1-02L (Intermodal Stacks; Logistics Park Chicago IL to Long Beach CA) awaits a fresh crew, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 784 (Goleta CA to Irvine CA, truncated from going to Sa... (more)

Thanks to a thus-far fairly wet winter, the hills of southern California are nice and green (and, sadly, much more burnable later in the year). It has even been wet enough that bright orange Cali... (more)

BNSF Railway train S-LPCLBE1-03L, with Norfolk Southern AC44C6M 4060 (ex-NS Dash 9-40C 8865) and BNSF ES44C4 8139 up front (and BNSF ES44C4 8204 as the rear Distributed Power Unit) providing the m... (more)

Rolling westbound past the Cemex cement plant in Victorville is BNSF intermodal train S-LPCLBE1-05 (Logistics Park Chicago IL to Long Beach CA). This train is a long one at 170 cars, and the way ... (more)

Speeding through suburban Orange County is BNSF intermodal double-stack train S-LPCLBE1-23, ticking off the last few miles on its trip from Chicago’s Logistics Park to Long Beach. BNSF ES44C4 6... (more)

One of BNSF Railway’s ten 25th Anniversary engines, ES44AC 6179, leads a 14,187-foot double-stack train heading to Long Beach from Chicago. This train, over 2½ miles long and weighing 19,358-t... (more)