Heading back to the Pacific Harbor Line's locomotive facility is PHL MP30C-3 68. This locomotive was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Southern Pacific SD40 8476 in May 1966. It... (more)

EMDX SD40J 50, a Joule Battery Electric Locomotive built on the frame of an SD40-2 by Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. in Brazil, switches autoracks at Pacific Harbor Lines' Pier B Yard. The locomot... (more)

Whisking commuters home to Long Beach from Los Angeles is a set of three Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority P865 LRVs. This is the Blue Line, generally built upon the last o... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train O-LACTHC8-08A (symbolled as U-79561-08A while on the Alameda Belt Line-dispatched Alameda Corridor and on the Pacific Harbor Line) sits at Pier W on Term... (more)

Pacific Harbor Line MP20B-3 20, seen switching autoracks in the railroad's Pier B Yard, was built by EMD as Denver & Rio Grande GP40 3079 in February 1979. When the Southern Pacific, which was ac... (more)

Constructed in April 2016 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Union Pacific SD70ACe 9026, the next year this locomotive was chosen by UP to be repainted and renumbered to UP 1943 as the c... (more)

Shuffling autoracks in Pacific Harbor Line's Pier B Yard is PHL MP20C-3 73. Built by MotivePower Inc. from a former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe SD45 (ATSF 5356, ATSF 1806, originally ATSF 1806), t... (more)

Heading to Pacific Harbor Line's Pier B Yard is PHL PR30C 40. This locomotive was built by Progress Rail using the former Canadian Pacific SD40-2 5819 as a starting point, originally numbered PRL... (more)

This trackage, threading between a stand of palm trees and a row of eucalyptus, is Union Pacific's San Pedro Subdivision. It was, before the UP acquired the Southern Pacific, the UP's mainline to ... (more)

Speeding weary commuters home to Long Beach, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Agency P2000 Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) 244, built in 1996-1999 by Siemens Mobility, will shortly make a stop at the Wil... (more)

Traveling down the middle of Long Beach Boulevard is Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Agency Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) 1120, built in 2014-2020 by Japan’s Kinki Sharyo. This train is carrying co... (more)

A PHL Dock Job yards an inbound BNSF stack train at Pier B Yard with a trio of GEs.

The CIT Group GP20D 2014 and PHL 3GS21C 80 work a cut of autoracks at CP Gaspur, where Toyotas are unloaded from ships, just off Pacific Harbor Line's Pier B Yard. CEFX 2014 is just one of many l... (more)

Look, Ma! No Fuel Tank!

EMDX SD40J 50, a Joule Battery Electric Locomotive built on the frame of an SD40-2 by Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. in Brazil, switches autoracks ... (more)

Arrival of the newly minted steam locomotive from China, JS 8419 is destine for Iowa and the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad. Note the damaged cab. © 1989 Steve Crise.