In VMV's heyday, they'd get a unit, slap VMV or PAL on the slide and assign it to PAL until the unit was sold, rebuilt or failed. The only trick was finding a PAL train running in the daytime. Th... (more)
Quiet Warm Day in the Yard. On a 70-degree November afternoon, all stands quiet in the yard, with three GE's awaiting assignment and one intermodal stacking to the left.
Northbound Amtrak No. 14, the Coast Starlight with Siemans ALC-42 No. 314 leading, crosses Padre Juan Canyon Road as it rolls through Faria Beach Coloney on the Santa Barbara Sub.