The Sunday LOF41 Day Bud switcher makes a rare afternoon appearence as it splits the CP-Lockheed signals at the Bob Hope Airport station on its way back to Gemco with a small cut of autos from LATC. The stretch of track between Burbank Jct. to the east and Gemco Yard to the west rarely only sees roughly one daily westbound train in daylight between the M-F LOF42 Saugus Local and the Sunday Day Bud, but the LOF42 shoves caboose-first west and the LOF41 usually returns in the morning hours. On this day, their connecting autos on a late inbound ZAILC didn't arrive at LATC until the late morning, so the crew made their trek several hours later than typical. As the interlocking name suggests, this location is next to what was once Lockheed's "Skunk Works," where military aircract such as the F-117 Stealth Bomber were born. It terms of railroad history, this trackage was once on the east end of SP's Coast Line, and has seen a whole host of rail traffic in its day.
