As they say in the model world, there is a prototype for just about everything. It doesn't just happen on models but on the real thing too as this three well car ended up on both tracks after pick... (more)

BNSF inbound trains for Long Beach Container are routinely stored on the Hyuka lead, adjacent the facility, when they arrive before an outbound train departs due to it's cramped facility. The prev... (more)

In 2007, 60 was the first SD40 modified

only a couple of years into UP's takover of the WP a pair of exWP GP's led UP southbound "Mead Local" past Manual siding a few miles from the end of the branch.

UP's Mead Local is ready to depart Mead Yard "cab hop" to return to UP's main LA area East Yard in East Los Angeles

A PHL Dock Job heads light from Pier B Yard through CP Gaspur on its way across the harbor area back to Pier A Yard in Wilmington.

How the mighty have fallen ... This trackage, threading between a stand of palm trees and a row of eucalyptus, is Union Pacific's San Pedro Subdivision. It was, before the UP acquired the ... (more)

Led by KCS SD70ACe 4100, the power for outbound stack train S-LBLCHI1-22 has just shoved a stack car into the clear of the switch for the Pier F lead. The set will back up and the crewman on the ... (more)

A Los Angeles MTA "Blue Line" train approaches the Spring Street grade crossing in Long Beach on March 2, 2012. Next stop - Willow Street. And then street running down Long Beach Boulevard to do... (more)

The day before Cal's last trip to the Rose Bowl.......

A PHL dock job heads west through Long Beach on its way to work the docks.

BNSF 153 is crossing over the Dominguez Channel and Henry Ford Blvd and is approaching PHL's Badger Bridge which will carry it onto Terminal Island in the Long Beach/Los Angeles, CA port complex.

Who gets to go first? BNSF 153 and 4685 wait to see who will first get the signal to cross PHL's Badger Bridge onto Terminal Island in the Long Beach/Los Angeles port complex.

Union Pacific local LOG11R 06 backs a string of tank cars across Las Hermanas Street in Long Beach, California, on October 6, 2011. Power for the train are UPY 2737 (with a modified exhaust stack... (more)