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.

PHL 61 pulls a string of K Line intermodal containers from ICTF down to Long Beach as it rolls by CP West Thernard.

Rebuilt with a CAT engine by Progress, this Motive Power Industries MP20C-3 has recently returned to PHL. It is seen here building a stacker at Pier B Yard in Long Beach.

A PHL Dock Job shoves a mile long string of double stacks onto Terminal Island. The train is running over former Union Pacific ROW on the PHL Manuel Sub. Across the Dominguez Channel is the PHL's ... (more)

One of the ubiquitous PHL dock jobs that run around San Pedro, Wilmington and Long Beach with their single locomotive shoving or pulling massive strings of tables with loaded containers, is seen h... (more)

PHL 62 backs a long line of containers into the docks of Port of Long Beach, amidst some oddly placed, Pepto-colored flowers.

Busy day at the port.

A PHL Dock Job shoves north on the Alameda Corridor Sub. The train is coming from Terminal Island. Its northern end is already through West Thenard (this area was once called East Thenard, many ye... (more)

Operating as a lone light engine (the way most PHL jobs leave Pier A Yard), an MP20C-3 heads out to begin its work as a BNSF Dock Job. This is one of six (I believe) BNSF Dock Jobs that the PHL ru... (more)

One of Pacific Harbor Line's zebra stripe Motive Power Industries "clean" diesels begins its day of work, shoving back from Knoll along the Tosco Spur, on its way to build trains in Yang Ming's We... (more)

With the palms green and flowers ablaze, its hard for an Easterner like me to get use to Christmas carols on the radio. What worse, people around here actually have the nerve to complain about it ... (more)

A long transfer drag from ICTF (Union Pacific's Intermodal Container Transfer Facility) to Long Beach is handled by a single Motive Power Industires MP20C-3 as it eases over Alameda Blvd and the n... (more)

At least ten members of Pacific Harbor Line's all-environmentally-friendly fleet await the call to duty on a humid spring morning. With a classy paint scheme like this, you can tell that someone i... (more)

Pacific Harbor Line 62, an MPI MP20C-3, backs down Fries street on its way to Pasha to switch the Borax covered hoppers there. The PHL is the first railroad in America to roster 100% low-emission... (more)

After dropping a string of loaded stacks in Pier B Yard, PHL MP20C-3 #61 heads light to Pier A Yard, and approaches the "distant signal" at E Street. Always set to yellow, this signal warns the cr... (more)