A BNSF shuttle job clears the permanent approach semaphore at Rolling Junction with a warbonnet Dash 9 taking up the rear.

The 0200 BNSF Dock Job switches out some inbound PHL cars on the Long Beach leg of the Watson Wye as an SD70ACe awaits its next assignment on a storage track.

BNSF's 613 Watson Shuttle Job begins to cross the one and only grade crossing on the Alameda Corridor (E. Lomita). Between the dirt road and the constant extremely heavy truck traffic, this is a v... (more)

BNSF's 613 Watson Shuttle Job waits at the West Thernard signals for permission to head onto the PHL's Long Beach Sub.

PHL's 1PM UP Dock Job has a long string of stacks on the coupler as it takes the Long Beach Sub and heads south into the spaghetti bowls of tracks ahead of it.

The 5AM dock job has an incredibly long cut of baretables on the coupler as it shoves up the Long Beach Sub, about to enter Union Pacific's Dolores Industrial Lead on its way to drop the empties a... (more)

The 8AM Dock Job heads under the big signal bridge at West Thernard in Carson, led by Pacific Harbor Line's only PR30C.

The 621 Watson Shuttle Job pulls a string of stacks for Mediterranean down the Alameda Corridor. It will soon take the Long Beach Sub and then shove into Mediterranean to deliver what I believe wa... (more)

Of the three units SP painted up to celebrate our nations BiCentennial celebration this was considered the ugly duckling used mostly in local service as seen here near sunset at SP's LA area Dolor... (more)

A visiting LATX hostler takes the power off of the morning's Long Beach Hauler for a spin on the Wilmington Wye and then up to Dolores for servicing.

They Might Have an Identity Crisis!

Blue-flagged and awaiting its next call to duty, Union Pacific 9908 sits at the north end of UP's Dolores Yard in Carson, California, on November ... (more)

A Pacific Harbor Line dock job shoves an extremely long cut of double stacks towards Long Beach after taking the Wilmington Wye across Alameda Blvd.

Bloody Nose and Kodachrome

A pair of EMD SW1500s trundle through Dolores Yard in Carson, California, on November 3, 1986. Besides the obvious difference in paint schemes (2575 is on... (more)

A Union Pacific Dock Job regains the Alameda Corridor (from the Dolores Industrial Lead) as it prepares to run light back down to the Harbor.

One Month Old

The rising sun illuminates Union Pacific SD70ACe 9004 at the railroad's Dolores Yard (in Carson, California) on April 25th, 2016. Built by EMD in Mexico in March 2016,... (more)