Power for the UP LOW10 Torrance spends its downtime on a wide open team track where it is tagged mercilessly. The modern office high-rise in the background is LA Metro HQ.

While the rest of my kin was enjoying a family reunion at my brother-in-law's place, I snuck out for the two block walk to this shot from Half Moon Bay Drive of the Lake Shore Limited pulled by a ... (more)

The Torrance Local had a light day's work this day and is seen coming off the spur down to Crenshaw Lumber and retaking the the Torrance Lead with a heavily tagged GP402- and GP60 and a couple emp... (more)

Summit Excursion train #43 loads on the Ore Dock for the equipment's second trip of the day up the mountain to the White Pass Summit. As far as I could tell from my brief time there, Ore Dock only... (more)

A rare mileage run for CalRail 2020 in Ventura's convention, has just crossed Briggs on its way towards Piru. I took this photograph under the watchful eye of two policemen, who then questioned me... (more)

Union Pacific Oxnard Local runs long-hood forward, pulling a single car for Spears Manufacturing along the one-time SP mainline between Los Angeles and San Francisco, now a stub end branch that se... (more)

Skid marks on the street often tell a story, but I think rarely quite as dramatically as they do here at the grade crossing where a former Union Pacific SD60, now owned by CEMEX and used on their ... (more)

Mojave Northern's rare SE32C traverses the yard along Route 66 light as it moves into position to pull a coal train up to the mine.

Laying over on a lazy Saturday morning, the Union Pacific Oakdale Local sits on the small remaining remnant of the mostly abandoned Oakdale Branch (now reached via BNSF trackage from Riverbank). ... (more)

This historic marker and small stretch of track mark the Southern Pacific's one time Santa Monica, CA Long Wharf (actually located in today's Pacific Palisades), which was supposed to turn Santa M... (more)

National Locomotive's rebuilt former Norfolk & Western RS36 #1800 sits at the shops that NALCO shared with the Morristown & Erie Railroad. This was to be the first in a group of RS11 and RS36 rebu... (more)

A view no longer available as offices have since been built above the tracks making this a de facto underground terminal. These Voiture de Banlieue à 2 Niveau cars (Double Decker Suburban Cars) w... (more)

Having finished up switching Wise Transfer with cars for Chevron, the El Segundo Local is seen here heading back to LA, passing under the freeway railroad tunnel at South Los Angeles, running long... (more)

Former Lehigh & Hudson River C420 works the Allentown Hump, paired with a GP38-2. The former Lehigh Valley, nee Jersey Central yard was an Alco Mecca in 1978, but it would be shortlived. A 1979 ... (more)

Heard that the ex SP GP40-2 1413 was back on the Torrance Local (and although tagged, it's nose is still tolerable). Set up to copy a neat shot my friends Enrique and Mark have pulled off of the t... (more)