Union Pacific SD40-2 3762 leading an Intermodal train thru Downtown Los Angeles

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)

One of Southern Pacific's three DD35 diesels, #9901, lays over at the Taylor Yard engine facility in Los Angeles, California. Delivered in 1964 as 8401, it was renumbered to 9501 in 1965 and the ... (more)

Mother nature is pushing the ties every which way on the former Southern Pacific Santa Monica Branch (Pacific Electric Santa Monica Airline) just east of Culver City and Sentous Yard. Built as th... (more)

The UP hogger gives a friendly wave to two maintainers working on CP Ninth Street on the East Bank Line of the River Subdivsion. UP freight on this line can be heading east or west. Eastbounds ca... (more)

A Metrolink to Rivrside passes the massive Dynamics Logistics warehouse on the East Bank Line of the River Subdivsion, while a Union Pacific intermodal follows it. Although Metrolink owns these t... (more)

The local power sits in the yard waiting to go on duty.

Many thanks to the crew for this shot - they stopped here for a moment to let me take a photo. Here the local is has just finished switching at the LA Times plant and is about to shove back to the... (more)

Not even a year old and already the paint is peeling - the first Amtrak SDP40Fs had a problem with the black on the frames. Amtrak 522 has just arrived in Los Angeles from Chicago on the point of... (more)

Looking at the pilot and smokebox of Western Pacific Consildation #26. It is one of the largest locomotive at Travel Town, and is an ALCO, WP Model C-43. Built in 1909, #26 led a rather quiet lif... (more)

Built in 1864 by E.S. Norris in Lancaster, PA for the Western Pacific; it was lettered "G" and nicknamed "Mariposa." The WP was not the later railroad, but a construction entity building the Centr... (more)

A GenSet, an SW1500 and another GenSet sit on one of the Myers Team Tracks. Two CCRCL engines are in the background.

Two SW1500s and a GenSet sit on one of the Myers Team Tracks near downtown LA in the night.

The Heisler locomotive was the last version of the three major types of geared steam locomotive (with Shay and Climax). This three-tuck 75 ton Heisler was built in 1918 for the Hetch Hetchy Railro... (more)

Santa Fe SD40-2 5024 rests between runs at the railroad's Hobart Yard near Los Angeles, California, on March 23, 1982.