One Month Old

The rising sun illuminates Union Pacific SD70ACe 9004 at the railroad's Dolores Yard (in Carson, California) on April 25th, 2016. Built by EMD in Mexico in March 2016,... (more)

Fresh UP Power

On March 29th, 2016, a General Electric ET44AC locomotive, Union Pacific 2658, was found at Dolores Yard in Carson CA. Numbered 2570-2669, UP's class for these one-hun... (more)

Fresh Blood (y-Nose)

Waiting for its next assignment at Southern Pacific's Dolores Yard, in Carson, California, in September 1991, is Cotton Belt GP40R 7276. The locomotive rolled o... (more)

It's a Locomotive, Not a Canvas

Backing onto its train early in the morning at Union Pacific's Dolores Yard (in Carson, California) is UP SD70M 4604, which someone - apparently - fel... (more)

UP's afternoon Mead Local was returning to East Los Angeles yard on the San Pedro Branch at Carson.

The empty Pasha Slab train usually runs at night and is a very hard train to catch. On this day, however, it appeared at Dolores Yard in the mid afternoon. It is seen here transitioning to the BNS... (more)

Southbound UP Harbor Local Carson.

SP MP15DC 2690 was rebuilt by National Railway Equipment into a "Truck Engine Switcher" (TES), or GS14B. This unique locomotive features a pair of Cummins 700hp truck engines are under i... (more)

Two very different Gensets sit at the end of the roundhouse track in Dolores. These two units have been here for a few weeks at least, so are likely OOO. The closer one is the one of a kind GS14B ... (more)

A train of export coal enters the Southern Pacific's Dolores Yard behind a trio of AC4400CW diesels in Februrary 1996. Meanwhile, a pair of SP "Cruds" - the nickname for Espee's ubiquit... (more)

UP afternoon Harbor Local southbound Manual siding

UP's southbound afternoon Harbor Local Manual siding

One of a quartet of SD35's assigned to hauler service rest between runs at SP Dolores yard

SP 6800 one of four MK rebuilds of U25B's also one of three units SP painted up in a BiCentennial paint scheme for the 1976 200th anniversary of our countrys independence sits waiting for go back ... (more)

Union Pacific ES44AC 8185 appears to have grown a mustache! (UP calls these C45AH.)