Rolling toward Los Angeles is a Union Pacific double-stack train being pulled by UP Dash 8-40C 9129, teamed with a pair of SD60s and two more Dash 9-40Cs. (Ontario, California – March 1988)

CSX Transportation Dash 8-40C 7492, seen here at Union Pacific’s Dolores Industrial Lead, was built by General Electric in March 1989 as Conrail 6037. When Conrail was broken up between CSX and... (more)

Speeding weary commuters home to Long Beach, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Agency P2000 Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) 244, built in 1996-1999 by Siemens Mobility, will shortly make a stop at the Wil... (more)

Awaiting its next call to duty at Union Pacific Railroad’s Dolores Yard is Kansas City Southern Railway ES44AC 4767. After 2½ years of service, this locomotive (built in November 2011) still l... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Dash 9-44CW 4906, operating with FURX SD40-2 7287 (ex-BNSF 7287, originally BN 7287) and BNSF GP38-2 2277 (ex-BN 2277, née-SLSF 422), approaches Cajon Pass' T... (more)

When the British Petroleum (BP Products North America) refinery in Carson was sold to Tesoro Petroleum, their SW1200 switcher, BPOX 458, became Tesoro 001. Built by EMD in February 1959 as Colora... (more)

Double-headed F59PHIs lead Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 564 as it heads to San Diego from Los Angeles. Most likely, one of these two (AMTK 464 or AMTK 462) will be left in San Diego as a "... (more)

Heading east as it crests southern California’s Cajon Pass is BNSF train Z-LACWSP4-15U. BNSF ES44C4s 6613 and 8130, SD70ACEs 8992 and 8420, and Dash 9-44CW 5225 will take this UPS Expedited Int... (more)

Soaking up some sun in Kansas City Southern's Knoche Yard is Iowa Chicago & Eastern SD40-2 6400, the City of Sanborn. This locomotive was originally Union Pacific 3562, built by EMD in Mar... (more)

Another atmospheric river hits California, but this one isn’t as bad as the one earlier in the month. Metrolink train 802, behind F125 903, rolls to a stop at the station (a former Santa Fe dep... (more)

Bringing up the markers on a Burlington Northern Santa Fe local heading east through Basta is Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe way car 999716. These cabooses were built in 1978. (Fullerton, California... (more)

Late in the afternoon, Union Pacific train LOG16R 14, technically the 7400 Zone Switcher out of Mead, but popularly called the Vopak Switcher, navigates the S-curve at the north end ... (more)

Several patched diesels sit in Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway’s Watson Yard, in Los Angeles’ Wilmington neighborhood. BNSF SD40-2 7847 was built in July 1978 (27 years earlier) as Color... (more)

Switching cars at Union Pacific's Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF), in Long Beach adjacent to their Dolores Yard, are UP SD40M-2 2664 (for all intents and purposes and SD45) and an SD... (more)

Copper Basin Railway train OT-1, with 60 cars loaded with 7800 tons of sulfide ore from the copper mine at Ray, heads southbound through a Saguaro forest toward Ray Junction on its run to the smel... (more)