Power for the UP LOW10 Torrance spends its downtime on a wide open team track where it is tagged mercilessly. The modern office high-rise in the background is LA Metro HQ.

BBQ unit

Palm trees, eucalyptus trees and the San Gabriel Mountains combine to create a typically southern Californian setting for a Union Pacific local, sitting in Long Beach, on the former Los Angeles an... (more)

Green Goats with southern California heritage markings

An Indiana Harbor Belt train works its way through the maze of tracks at Dolton, Ill.

The faces of modern railroading in the central California town of Tracy bask in the morning sunshine.

Union Pacific, Three Engine Gen Set # 2714 leads two other engines and the UP # 210 Mobile Laboratory Up the Coast route.

Sharp looking genset

A heavily tagged El Segundo makes its way across the Los Angeles River as it nears West Redondo (named for the one time Redondo Beach Branch that diverged here and has long ago been abandoned. Thi... (more)

The El Segundo prepares to shove a long string of grain hoppers down the Cereal Processors Spur in South Central LA, with the Los Angeles City Hall tower visible off in the distance.

Two brand new NRE 3GS21B Gensets (USAX 6519 and 6520) arrived at Ft. Campbell this week. They are awaiting final set up and start up, which is scheduled to occur within the next week.

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS! A set of UP Gensets waits out the weekend on Myers Street team track in downtown Los Angeles. Sadly the three units have become a canvas for stupidity.

The 7400 Zone switcher pulls a cut of cars over the Dominguez Channel in Carson, CA as it switches industries in the oil refinery rich area.

The LOW10 picks up a car near the end of track at the one time location of the Pacific Electric Torrance shops, today a struggling industrial park.

The Torrance Local works Conoco near Gardena CA next to the aggregate conveyer for Robertson Ready-Mix.