This is the third year that I’ve gone to the Fullerton Railroad Days event, and this year there was something special – a 4-8-4 Baldwin Locomotive Works steam locomotive. Santa Fe #3751 arrived Thursday night (4/30) at the Fullerton Station, being led by a BNSF locomotive. This wasn’t the first time the engine has showed […]

In March, the Orange Empire Railway Museum hosted the 2015 Iron Horse Family Steampunk Carnivale. The event was held on March 21-22, and we stopped by for a visit on the 22nd. It was a good day as I got to see both trains and steampunk – both of which I love. I ended up […]

At the end of April 2014 we took a vacation to St. Louis and one of the days we stopped at the Museum of Transportation. I knew there was some train equipment at the museum, and one of those was the Union Pacific Big Boy 4006. Little did I know that there was so much […]

Usually when I hear a train passing by outside, it’s a train comprised of newer BNSF locomotives pulling double-stacked shipping containers. Usually at least once a day there will also be a train of tank cars. But occasionally I see something different that gets me excited and fumbling to take a picture. Last month this […]

Although the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 was on display at the RailGiants Train Museum in Pomona for years and years, I never went to see it (I’ve never actually been to the museum yet – that’s a future outing!). But with all the press about the 4014 moving to Wyoming so that UP can […]

My wife found out about the Orange Empire Railway Museum so we decided to take Wesley there to see some trains. The first thing we did when we got there was ride in one of the passenger trains that was being pulled up and down a straight piece of track at the front of the […]

So one Friday as I’m working from home I happened to look out the window as a train went by. This isn’t that uncommon as I like to see what locomotives and rolling stock are going by and it’s pretty easy to hear when one is coming. When I looked up, I saw some tank […]

Apparently the city of Fullerton does the Fullerton Railroad Days most years, and I wanted to check it out (especially since it’s only a few miles away). There were several different layouts in different scales, but the one I liked the most was a modular HO layout as you first walk into the area which […]

I live across the street from BNSF tracks so I have a pretty good view out my window to watch the trains go by. One of the first pictures I found that I took of a train across the street was on a rainy day. There is actually construction that recently started to put a […]

Due to the size of the train table (5×8) I had to get rid of my rather large desk. I’m now using a desk about half the size of my old one. But that was the requirement my wife set in order to have the train table upstairs. It’s now taking up pretty much all […]