lineup of power in transition at Santa Fe Hobart yard, Los Angeles, CA

An East LA bound Gold Line train crosses over First Street Bridge while the Los Angeles skyline stands tall in the distance. This is one of those shots that I have intended to get for a long time ... (more)

There's a wonderful photographer (Robert Morris) whose favorite phrase is "it's all crap now." Finding this radio sled, built out of a B30-7, apparently bad ordered (for at least a year now) on th... (more)

No, they won't MU with each other... in fact, I don't think the Model 40 can MU with anything, and the RS12, if I'm right, can only MU with another Baldwin... but still they are the two operationa... (more)

BNSF Railway's new power for Hobart Yard in Los Angeles, California, are bright and shiny for their first day of service on October 1, 2010. Seen here are NRE 3GS21C switchers 1303, 1307, 1305 an... (more)

UP east LA yard hump engine pushing cars over the hump

Emerging from under Flower Street, a three-car Blue Line train heads south towards Long Beach. In the background, the bus parade begins as weary office workers head home for the evening.

The Guadalupe perishable derailed due to a locked traction motor on the lead unit, a GP40X. Due to the Coast Line being shut down, the Amtrak "Starlights" and "Spirts of California" were re-route... (more)

The day has just begun and the Los Angeles to Oakland UP special is headed north, running on Metrolink tracks, leaving the faint lights of Burbank Jct in the distance

A Metro Rail Purple Line train is about to depart. The yellow warning poles are installed on the platform to help prevent serious injury that could result from passengers accidentally falling off... (more)

Now that's customer service. A single Boeing car is trailing 2 units through Burbank jct on its way to Portland and then onto the Boeing plant. It does not look like the normal wing cars that are ... (more)

"The Shortest Railway in the World" in operation under the skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles.

Late afternoon in what was once a busy ticketing area.

E9 6053 and DD35 9901, both with dual engines, await a uncertain future in this scene. 9901 was to be called back into service, 6053 was not so lucky.

A Hobart Day Shift Yard Job pulls baretables to the old Santa Fe LA First Street Yard for temporary storage, until they are needed again back at Hobart. The venerable GP35us are seen here passing ... (more)