UPY 2724 leads the Costa Mesa local eastbound through Santa Ana, CA.

A new genset switcher helps work the north end of Saginaw Yard.

The crew gets their local train ready to shove from J Yard over to 4th Street Yard with the Sears Tower in the background. The 1.8 million-square-foot warehouse was built in 1927 to support Sears... (more)

After a winter storm passes through, the mountains are covered with a blanket of snow. UPY 2747 leads Monday's Costa Mesa local southbound on Olive Street.

A trio of new genset switchers brings a string of loaded hoppers from an industrial spur onto the yard lead.

Kicking cars at Smith Avenue, we are close to Mile Post 4.2 on the Union Pacific Los Nietos Subdivsion. In Southern Pacific days, this was Mile Post 500.7 on the Puente Branch. SP never saw a Ge... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific 3GS21B locomotives, numbers 2724 and 2747, rest at the West Anaheim Yard after operating down to Huntington Beach earlier in the day. These locomotives were both built by ... (more)

UPY 2717 works the Riverside Lead Local above the Santa Ana River, which is currently dry. OK, it's almost always dry. In the background is the huge Portland Cement Plant next to the West Colton Y... (more)

Posing for its portrait, Pacific Harbor Lines 3GS21B 31 is ready for shipment. The six-axle gensets for PHL are in-process and it looks like SD40 frames and trucks are being used as platforms f... (more)

A pair of new generation switching locomotives handle a cut of cars at the west end of the former SP yard at City of Industry.

An unpainted genset leads a CN Geep 38 pulling cars out of the yard

A closeup of Pacific Harbor Lines #31.This unit was just completed here at Mt. Vernon,it is a NRE model 3GS21B,3 engines,gen-set,2100 horsepower,bb trucks.These locomotives carry 3 700 horsepower ... (more)

Inside view of NRE 3GS21B construction at NRE Mt. Vernon.This unit is part of an order for BNSF and will carry a number in the 1240 series.This engine was built fom the ground up here inside build... (more)