An overview of the south end of Union Pacific's Dolores Yard engine facility, showing an assortment of modern UP power: ES44ACs, SD70Ms, Gensets, etc. The Alameda Corridor (the mainlines shared by... (more)

BNSF Railway train S-ALTSCO1-16V accelerates after having to wait for the Badger Bridge, a lift bridge, to lower after letting a tugboat pass. The train, having originated in Alliance, Texas, wil... (more)

An overview of the north end of Union Pacific's Dolores Yard engine facility, showing an assortment of modern UP power: ES44ACs, SD70Ms, SD70ACe's, Dash 9-44CWs, etc. The Alameda Corridor (the ma... (more)

PRLX PR30C 3002 switches a cut of double-stack well cars at Union Pacific's Dolores Yard / ICTF facility in Carson, California, on September 19, 2011.

A variety of power can typically be found at the Pacific Harbor Line's Pier A Yard in Wilmington, California. On September 19, 2011, two of them were PHL MP20C-3 68 and Progress Rail Services PR2... (more)

One of the Pacific Harbor Line's two 3GS21C genset locomotives brings a cut of baretables (empty well cars) northward (railroad "east") across the Badger Bridge and off of Terminal Island. With a... (more)

As seen from approximately eleven stories up, BNSF train Q-LBACLO1-19K has just crossed the Cerritos Channel via the Badger Bridge as it departs Terminal Island for its trip eastward. This typica... (more)

A new Union Pacific ES44AC diesel, with the newer, heavier handrail stanchions. UP calls these engines C45ACCTE locomotives, but builder General Electric calls them ES44AC's.

Southern California's Pacific Harbor Line rostered two SD40T-2 locomotives, and they are both in storage at their Pier A Yard in Wilmington, California. PHL 51 is the former Southern Pacific 8550... (more)

The Pacific Harbor Line rosters twenty-four engines, all low-emission diesel-electrics. In this view of the Pier A Yard enginehouse can be seen MP20C-3 66, a string of four/fifths of the roads 3G... (more)

On the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks on New York City and Washington DC, Pacific Harbor Line MP20B-3 20 works a cut of cars at the railroad's Pier A Yard in Wilmington, Californi... (more)

Santa Fe F7A 301L, along with an unidentified B-unit (darn those 2" numbers on them), backs down the "escape track" at Los Angeles Union Station on a bright weekend morning in the early 1970s. Th... (more)

What was once a very common sight in southern California is the citrus packing house, typified here by the Valdora Produce Company, located at the intersection of California and Barton in Bryn Maw... (more)

A Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority train of P865 cars rounds the curve at 1st Street and Pacific Avenue in downtown Long Beach as it begins its trip to 7th Street / Metro C... (more)

A Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority train rounds the curve at 1st Street and Pacific Avenue in downtown Long Beach as it begins its trip to 7th Street / Metro Center near do... (more)