Train to nowhere: A set of three former Idaho Northern & Pacific geeps and some boxcars sit forlorn in the desert on the Pacific Imperial Railroad trackage west of Plaster City, which hasn't seen ... (more)
Plaster City - [Summer Solstice 2015 +7 Series] - Purchased by the Pacific Imperial Railway (aka PIR) the successor in interest to the Carrizo Gorge Railway, these three former CSX GP38-2'... (more)
Ghost Drag - [Summer Solstice 2015 +7 Series] - Purchased by the Pacific Imperial Railway (aka PIR) the successor in interest to the Carrizo Gorge Railway, these three former CSX GP40-2's s... (more)
If you wait for this train, you're going to wait a long time. Three former Idaho, Northern & Pacific GP40, since acquired by the moribund (stillborn?) Pacific Imperial Railroad, await their first ... (more)
A former Idaho, Northern & Pacific GP40, since acquired by the moribund (stillborn?) Pacific Imperial Railroad, awaits its first day of service over a wash bridge in the desert in the Imperial Val... (more)
Just west of Plaster City this interesting train can be found idle on the former San Diego and Eastern Railway. These units are former Idaho Northern and Pacific and were purchased by PIR, but aft... (more)
Release the brake pipe for test before leaving to the mine
US Gypsum's Plaster City plant sports the last narrow gauge railroad industrial railroad in the United States. I've known about this operation for sometime, primarily at the lynchpin customer in a... (more)
The quarry train returns to Plaster City about an hour later than expected. The water tank on the rear of the train is in the background. This is the last industrial narrow gauge railway in the Un... (more)
