Popping into a sunny spot thanks to a hole in the morning's clouds is Union Pacific Railroad's train LOA32, the "Costa Mesa Local". This train operates every Monday and Wednesday, origin... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad GP40M-2 1529 leads train LOA32, the eastbound Costa Mesa Local, heading through Metrolink's Control Point Maple (on their Orange Sub) as this local travels from Anaheim to S... (more)

Approaching Control Point Maple, where Metrolink's Orange Sub meets their Olive Sub (the two tracks in the foreground), is Union Pacific Railroad local LOA32, the Costa Mesa Local, heading ... (more)

Union Pacific's Marlboro Local has just crossed Meats Avenue as it backs through the industrial area served by this job. UP GP40P-2 1375 and GP60 1083 are shoving two box cars back to the rest of... (more)

Union Pacific's 8-car Costa Mesa Local, which hasn't served Costa Mesa in decades, heads south on Metrolink's Orange Sub, on which it has trackage rights from Control Point (CP) College (na... (more)

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.

Union Pacific's Marlboro Local, powered by GP40P-2 1375 and GP60 1083, switches tank cars full of polyol at FXI, which manufactures foam mattresses. (Orange, California – February 7, 202... (more)

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 GP40P-2 1375, the former Southern Pacific 7602, originally SP 3199) is one of just three GP40P-2s built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division – all for the SP. Purchased as pa... (more)

Flatback Through The Other Side Of Anaheim. Union Pacific Railroad 1375 (GP40P-2, née-Southern Pacific 3199, EMD, 11/1974) was the sole power for train LOA32 (Anaheim turn) on March 31, 20... (more)

Rounding the superelevated curve on the wye at CP Maple, where Metrolink's Orange and Olive subs connect, is Union Pacific's Coast Mesa local, train LOA32. Normally operated with back-to-back Gee... (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 normally operates with two GPs, but on this day the second locomotive (GP60 1083) was missing, perhaps sent to West Colton Yard for some routine maintenance. This... (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 has just gotten onto Santa Ana Street, which it will travel down the middle of for a mile before turning south and traveling another half-mile down the center of Olive St... (more)