The Marlboro is on its final mile or so here as it heads down the iconic street running section on Santa Ana. Local residents are used to railfans here and walk by you while you're waiting saying ... (more)
While I still think of this job as the Huntington Beach Local, the LOA32A is officially called the "Costa Mesa Local" these days, even on days like this one, when it headed west and south towards ... (more)
Neptune Terminals genset slug 805A is at SRY’s Trapp Yard locomotive shops for some work. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a genset slug locomotive before.
Just another typical day at IHB Blue Island Yard finds another slug set working a cut of cars while other units awaits the next call to duty.
Union Pacific train YJY68R 21, the "J-Yard Switcher," trundles down the rough trackage of track 842 after dropping off a cut of covered hoppers and tank cars at Sweetener Products in Vernon, Calif... (more)
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train always draws a crowd - particularly when it comes time to unload the elephants and horses! Late in the afternoon on July 24th, 2013, Union Paci... (more)
A NRE genset pokes out from its fenced in fortress at Midwest Generation in Joliet. This is where the UP" Plaines" went to before the plant switched over to natural gas.
A pair of Union Pacific GS21B Genset switchers put together a short train of Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus cars (flats with wagons and the horse and elephant cars) to back them to Anah... (more)
San Diego & Imperial Valley NRE 3GS21B locomotive 702 trundles through the yard just south of downtown San Diego on March 14th, 2013. The catenary on the adjacent tracks are for the MTS trolley s... (more)
A pair of Gensets lead a switch job north at the Saginaw Interlocking.
An interesting NRE/EMD switcher combo basks in the warm evening light at North Yard in Salt Lake City.
Some Union Pacific genset power rests at the ex-SP J Yard near Los Angeles on a late Sunday afternoon.
The "Elsie" shoves a long string of cars towards Hawthorne while running alongside the parallel Century Freeway. This is one of those shots that I have wanted for decades, but getting a train faci... (more)
The Guasti Local pulls a long string of boxcars towards Ontario Airport. The three gensets come from Kaiser Yard in Fontana.
IHB 2143 waits for the signal at Riverdale.
