UP's four of a kind engine, UP 4444, leads some pristine white ballast into West Colton Yard and then onto Ontario for dumping.

Just another day at UP's West Colton Yard. It seems these minor derailments happen every other month in this area.

Rarus visitors stand in the morning light next to an eastbound waiting to go.

Headed east coming around the Riverside Junction lead.

Pull down power pauses next to an outbound.

Track crews repair damage from a derailment the previous evening.

Ballast for the Alhambra Sub, the Robertson rock train and an eastbound doublestack congregate west of Hunts Lane.

An eastbound comes face into the rising sun as it exchanges the BNSF for the ex-SP Sunset Route.

A busy scene at the West Colton Departure Yard. The tie train is doing a reverse/shove onto the Mojave Sub and heading up to the Cajon Pass. Two sets of power line up to meet their manifests. The ... (more)

UP 4444 hauls a load of very white ballast from Texas down towards Walnut.

UP 1996 quickly gets the Union Pacific "Officers Special" up to track speed after completing the reverse movement onto the main.

Westbound stacks with an SD60M triops leader head west, about to pass the Southern Pacific/Pacific Electric depot (out of frame to the left). While this train is on the old Southern Pacific Sunse... (more)

Colton Diesel house with the snowy San Bernardino Mountains (San Gorgonio Mountain - 11,500 feet) serving as a backdrop.

Due to construction on adding a second main from LA to West Colton a westbound manifest train is being diverted from the mainline through the yard on the 116 track that passes through the south si... (more)

Talk about a strange photo. Here I was going to shoot UP 7718 when all of a sudden from the east comes UP 7719 and from the west UP 3798 making for a three way meet here off the end of 9th St.