UP's Torrance Local power sits unprotected along the LA River when not in use (as there is no safe place to store the power without adding hours of work to the job to go get the power and bring it... (more)

UP's Torrance Local power sits unprotected along the LA River when not in use (as there is no safe place to store the power without adding hours of work to the job to go get the power and bring it... (more)

The Torrance Local had a light day's work this day and is seen coming off the spur down to Crenshaw Lumber and retaking the the Torrance Lead with a heavily tagged GP40- 2and GP60 and a couple emp... (more)

The Torrance Local had a light day's work this day and is seen coming off the spur down to Crenshaw Lumber and retaking the the Torrance Lead with a heavily tagged GP402- and GP60 and a couple emp... (more)

The Cemex Rock Train sits on Los Angeles Junction Railway's Long Laguna Lead over the 710 Freeway awaiting a new crew who will shove back to the wye out of frame and over to the CEMEX aggregate un... (more)

Having just dropped its pulls from the Torrance Industrial Lead back at Centralia, the El Segundo Local now begins a long pull west down its namesake industrial lead on its way to its namesake cit... (more)

Delivered to the Southern Pacific in March of 1980 SP 7662, UP 1413 is now held together by rust and spray paint. She shoves a long string of cars into Conoco Philips the day after Christmas.

Delivered to the Southern Pacific in March of 1980 is SP 7662, UP 1413 is now held together by rust and spray paint. She shoves a long string of cars into Conoco Philips the day after Christmas.

Tagging is a brutal reality of the local railroading scene in the urban areas of Los Angeles and the worst parts of it are on the Torrance and El Segundo Industrial Leads. On the day after Christm... (more)

A Saturday only move (symbol-wise at least) sees the El Segundo Local (or LOW20) work the Conoco Philips plant on the Torrance Industrial Lead (normally served by the Monday through Friday Torranc... (more)

An incredibly short LA to Barstow manifest heads through Santa Fe Springs, passing a dead-on-the-law stack train. Sadly the more interesting locomotives in the consist are the H2 and H1 Dash 9s pl... (more)

The El Segundo Local begins its shove into Grain Craft the morning after Christmas with a long cut of cars.

When I found out that the last SP GP40-2 on the UP roster was working on the El Segundo Local there was one shot I knew I wanted and it was this, of the train coming in onto the Wilmington Sub wit... (more)

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, builds another day's version of the El Segundo local alongside the Los Angeles River the day after Christmas in a ... (more)

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, crosses Central Avenue in Nickerson Gardens (this is the area for which South Central gets its name, as this is Ce... (more)