An incredibly short LA to Barstow manifest heads through Santa Fe Springs, passing a dead-on-the-law stack train. Sadly the more interesting locomotives in the consist are the H2 and H1 Dash 9s pl... (more)

The El Segundo Local begins its shove into Grain Craft the morning after Christmas with a long cut of cars.

When I found out that the last SP GP40-2 on the UP roster was working on the El Segundo Local there was one shot I knew I wanted and it was this, of the train coming in onto the Wilmington Sub wit... (more)

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, builds another day's version of the El Segundo local alongside the Los Angeles River the day after Christmas in a ... (more)

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, crosses Central Avenue in Nickerson Gardens (this is the area for which South Central gets its name, as this is Ce... (more)

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, begins its run south after working Grain Craft.

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, begins its run south after working Grain Craft with LA City Hall in the background.

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, pulls through an abandoned shopping mall on the El Segundo Industrial Lead on a beautiful Saturday morning in Sout... (more)

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, shoves towards the end of the El Segundo Industrial Lead on a beautiful Saturday morning in Southern California.

The El Segundo Local (looking a bit like a nursery school finger painting project gone wrong) comes around the curve onto the Torrance Industrial Lead to work Conoco Philips. Trailing unit is the ... (more)

The Robertson Ready Mix Rock Train has just emptied its load in Gardena and is now heading back towards the desert through Central Los Angeles. What can't be seen is that it is making a rare meet ... (more)

Sometimes it seems like every train coming into Southern California these days is an ISILB... and look, here's another. This one is a little odd in that it's bringing 53' containers into the harbo... (more)

BNSF stacks head into the harbor, coming around the big curve and passing the cracker on the south end of Marathon's refinery.

A string of light engines departs West Colton for Yerma.

A Santa Theresa intermodal heads east under the iconic Pepper overpass.