There were a bunch of these that day and I enjoyed hearing the throaty roar of those 16-567s as they latched onto large cuts of cars. In the near future the only sound of locomotives will be a th... (more)

In the warm afternoon glow of a January day (therefore, about 4:45 pm), a Southern Pacific Railroad freight prepares to depart westbound from the City of Industry Yard on the Basin District's Los ... (more)

Southern Pacific GP40-2 7677, built by EMD in March 1980, was photographed on a dark day in American history – September 11. No, not that really dark day in US history, but the one that was a d... (more)

Metrolink 302 pulls east into Bassett with an F125.

An F59 leads 302 through the interlocking at Bassett bound for San Bernardino.

A San Bernardino bound commuter train heads off the flyover at Bassett behind a venerable F59.

A rather short Los Angeles Hauler approaches Bassett out of the early morning sun with but wisps of the mountains in the background.

SP 4449 blasts through the City of Industry with the eastbound Louisiana World's Fair Daylight destined for New Orleans.

SP 3208 painted in the SPSF merger scheme leads two more SDP45's, the 3202 and 3203 plus a SD45T-2 Eastbound on a cab hop.

Cotton Belt Incognito

Southern Pacific SD45T-2 9392, SP SD45 7477 and a Cotton Belt GP60 lead a westbound manifest through Union Pacific's Puente Junction in the City of Industry, Ca... (more)

Leaving the curves behind, ATSF 3751 is getting up to speed again, about to cross Amar Road on the climb toward Baldwin Park and points east.

CSX power was extremely common in southern California on the Southern Pacific in the early 1990s, especially when the intermodal facility at City of Industry became a satellite facility for CSX In... (more)

Just when you think you've seen it all... As Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 4014 is ferried to West Colton Yard, a number of the steam crew members and a UP police officer take advantage of the emp... (more)

UP 4884 pulls the special move of UP 4014 to West Colton as they pass through the City of Industry.

Double Stacked Boxcars ~ On the morning of March 8, 2005, Union Pacific's daily West Colton to Los Nietos Manifest (MWCLN-08) with 3 units (UP 2474 leader) and 48 loads was heading westbou... (more)