Power for the LOA32 local out of Anaheim has seen better days as they lay over for the weekend. UP 1083 is an ex-SSW GP60, while ex-SP GP40P-2 1375 is coupled behind them.
The conductor of Union Pacific train LOA32, the Costa Mesa Local, waves to students walking to the Olive Street Elementary School as the train rolls at 5 miles-per-hour down the center of ... (more)
Union Pacific Costa Mesa Local LOA32 heads south on Metrolink’s Orange Sub, on which it operates from Anaheim to Santa Ana, at which point it switches back to UP trackage. UP GP60 1083 (ex-UP 1... (more)
Union Pacific's Costa Mesa Local is underway once again, heading south to Santa Ana with its ten cars, after a delay of nearly an hour trying to get onto Metrolink's Orange Sub at CP Colleg... (more)
Union Pacific train LOA32, the Marlboro Local, rounds the S-curve in an industrial park in Marlboro, an industrial section of the city of Orange. The train has just completed setting out two tank... (more)
Heading from Anaheim to Santa Ana is Union Pacific local LOA32, heading south on Southern California Regional Rail Authority’s (Metrolink) Orange Sub, which it hopped on in Anaheim and will dive... (more)
Parked on the wye in the Union Pacific Railway’s West Anaheim Yard is UP ET44AC 2739, built by General Electric in September 2016. (Anaheim California – March 29, 2021)
I See the Bad Moon a-Rising… A full moon rises in the eastern sky over a pair of Union Pacific GP60s. These four-axle locomotives were built in 1989 as hot power for intermoda... (more)
The power for Union Pacific local LOA32 has run around its eleven-car train, and is now shoving the cars into the industrial complex near the end of the UP’s Santa Ana Industrial Lead. Former C... (more)
Built in April 1948, Union Pacific NW2 1083 is looking good in the railroad’s latest paint scheme, which features the railroads shield on the cab. UP 1083 has retained its original single chime... (more)
Southern California is, once again, seeing drought conditions thanks to a La Niña condition in the Pacific Ocean. A quick trip to the Post Office became a longer trip home when the signals at th... (more)
Near the southern end of the Union Pacific’s Santa Ana Industrial Lead, UP train LOA32 switches some industries (most notably, Behr Paint). UP GP60s 1083 (ex-UP 1953, née-SSW 9651) and 1105 (e... (more)
UP 1083 & UP 1026 idle while waiting to go to work.
