A Three-Fer…!

A pair of westbound intermodal trains, one from Union Pacific and another from BNSF Railway, sit on the Alameda Corridor awaiting clearance to proceed down... (more)

Union Pacific SD60 2211 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as UP 6056 in May 1986. It was renumbered into the railroad's 2100-series, as UP 2211, on November 21, 2001, in order f... (more)

Sitting in Union Pacific's Dolores Industrial Lead (just north of Dolores Yard), awaiting their next assignment, are a pair of UP General Electric diesels: UP Dash 9-44CW 9684 (formerly Chicago &... (more)

Pacific Harbor Line MP20C-3 62, seen on the ACTA Alameda Corridor Subdivision, was built by EMD in May 1967 as Southern Pacific SD45 8922 (later rebuilt into an SD45R, SP 7470). (Compton, Califor... (more)

Norfolk Southern Railway Dash 8-40C 8710 sits alone on Union Pacific’s Dolores Industrial Lead, at the northern end of UP’s Dolores Yard. Locomotives from other railroads, in other parts of ... (more)

Four in Fresh Paint!

A quartet of brand-new Union Pacific SD70ACe diesels sit on the Dolores Industrial Lead near the railroad's Dolores Yard. Coupled behind UP 8813 are ... (more)

Yet to Earn Its Wings... Idling on the Union Pacific's Dolores Industrial Lead, where power recently arrived from westbound trains sits awaiting their next assignment, are UP AC44... (more)

A quartet of Union Pacific Railroad AC4400CWs sit on the Dolores Industrial Lead after cutting off the westbound train they brought to the Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF), in nearby ... (more)

Union Pacific AC6000CW 6965 was constructed by General Electric in January 2001. On December 6, 2010, it was downgraded to 4400 horsepower and dubbed (by the UP) an AC44/60CW. (Compton, Californ... (more)

No, this is not a Norfolk Southern yard ... it just looks that way after a quartet of NS power arrived in southern California on a Union Pacific intermodal train. On this end of the six unit lash... (more)

BNSF train S-CBLSCO1-22A, led by ES44C4 7173, sits on the Alameda Corridor (the 20-mile [32 km] freight rail "expressway" owned by the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority [ATAX] th... (more)

Heading to Lynwood's Cargill Milling, Union Pacific's Reyes Switcher (train LOG11R 29) heads north on the railroad's Patada Industrial Lead, paralleling the trench that contains the Alameda Corrid... (more)

At one-month-old, Union Pacific ES44AC 7385 has yet to accumulate much road grime upon it. (Dolores Yard, Compton, California - April 15, 2009)

Parked on the Union Pacific's Dolores Industrial Spur is a four-unit set of power off an intermodal train that recently arrived to be unloaded at the nearby ICTF Intermodal Terminal. Three-fourth... (more)

A typical set of power awaiting its next assignment at Union Pacific's Dolores Industrial Lead: UP ES44AC 7752, UP SD70M 4913. UP ES44AC 7702, Norfolk Southern SD70M-2 2673, NS Dash 9-40C 8817 an... (more)