YJY78R passes some trash piles that litter the ROW and sidewalk near the LA Times facility below downtown Los Angeles.
Though a shell of its former self, there's still a lot of gritty industrial railroad operations in the LA area. At or near the top of the list is the YJY78R, which ran up the LA Times Lead to serv... (more)
YJY78R works the LA Times Spur south of downtown LA with a genset pair.
A passenger train on the Pacific Harbor Line! As a terminal railroad, the Pacific Harbor Line isn’t normally thought of as an operator of passenger trains. So it was quite a s... (more)
The Marlboro Local passes one of the last remaining wigwags in SoCal, which has since been replaced.
Power off the morning's 68R J Yard job awaits its next duties as they sit above the Alameda Corridor south of downtown LA.
Typically the Reyes Industrial Lead work is done in the evenings, but on this day the 1400 Switcher crew doing the work in the early PM. They shove onto the Industrial Lead at CP-Compton as UP IDI... (more)
The El Segundo Local switches the Chevron interchange as a plane prepares to land at LAX. A rare clear sky also allows a view of a LA skyline on the left.
The Marlboro Local returns through Anaheim as they pass the now-gone wigwag.
A relatively clean genset leads the returning Torrance Local out of town.
A 4-way meet occurs at CP-Anaheim on a busy morning in Wilmington. On the far right PHL YP050 departs Berth 200 with a couple gensets and a train of reefers for K-Pac. Alongside it is a UP Dolores... (more)
A heavily tagged genset leads the El Segundo Local on their return trip by the now-gone Hawthorne wigwag.
LOW20 passes a wigwag and its replacement in Hawthorne.
The El Segundo Local pulls by some aerospace industries in Hawthorne behind a tagged genset.