CSX Transportation Dash 8-40C 7492, seen here at Union Pacific’s Dolores Industrial Lead, was built by General Electric in March 1989 as Conrail 6037. When Conrail was broken up between CSX and... (more)

Late in the afternoon, Union Pacific train LOG16R 14, technically the 7400 Zone Switcher out of Mead, but popularly called the Vopak Switcher, navigates the S-curve at the north end ... (more)

Norfolk Southern Railway Dash 9-40CW 9451, built by General Electric in March 2000, sits at the northern end of Union Pacific's Dolores Yard between assignments. (Compton, California – May 29, ... (more)

Sitting in the north end of Union Pacific’s Dolores Yard is 21,600 horsepower, resting after arriving on a westbound and later being called for an eastbound. Besides providing the muscle, CSX T... (more)

National Railway Equipment built a whopping total of one GS14B "Truck Engine Switcher" (TES), Union Pacific Y2005 (numbered for the year is was built), powered by a pair of Cummins 700hp... (more)

Southern Pacific MP15DC 2690 was rebuilt by National Railway Equipment into a "Truck Engine Switcher" (TES), or GS14B. A pair of Cummins 700hp truck engines are under the hoods of this ... (more)

As Pacific Harbor Line train YPSW24-05 rolled down the Union Pacific's UP Reyes Spur, the crew had to stop and adjust, to put it mildly, a new addition to an awning added to a camper sitting by th... (more)

Progress Rail Services 24, a PR24B demonstrator, was testing with Pacific Harbor Line 3GS21C 80 on the Alameda Corridor. PRLX 24 was built in October 2016 from PRLX GP40 3011 (ex-Wisconsin Centra... (more)

BNSF train BNSF S-LPCLBT1-08 passes under the Los Angeles Metro’s A Line (formerly the Blue Line) trackage as it heads to the Port of Long Beach to complete its run from Chicago. This intermoda... (more)

Sitting near Union Pacific’s Dolores Yard is UP ES44AC 7605, painted for General Electric to promote the builder’s Green Locomotive technology. This locomotive is still on UP’s roster, but ... (more)

Union Pacific's Chicago & North Western Heritage engine, SD70ACe 1995 (ex-UP 8522), leads a shipper's special, SYULB-25, heading to Long Beach from Yuma AZ) past CP Alameda (while crossing Alameda... (more)

A passenger train on the Pacific Harbor Line!

As a terminal railroad, the Pacific Harbor Line isn’t normally thought of as an operator of passenger trains. So it was quite a s... (more)

Typically the Reyes Industrial Lead work is done in the evenings, but on this day the 1400 Switcher crew doing the work in the early PM. They shove onto the Industrial Lead at CP-Compton as UP IDI... (more)

IDULBR brings a cut of baretables through CP-Compton and out of the Alameda Corridor Trench as they pass a stopped IDITIX train on Main 2.

An FXE powered repo train passes a homage to the 1984 Olympics in Compton as they approach CP-Alameda for a PHL recrew.