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 […]

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 […]