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 […]

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 […]

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 […]