A northbound Amtrak Surfliner passes the famous Hobart Tower.

Two of Los Angeles Junction's soon to be retired fleet of CF7s sun at their engine facility in Vernon. #2568 ended its life as a parts source for the other three rostered units, while #2563 is sti... (more)

F-units live! Well...almost! On a quiet and sunny Saturday morning in Los Angeles Junction Railway's Vernon, CA yard, CF7 #2563 rests alongside CF7 2568 (being cannibalized for parts), and an as... (more)

A Los Angeles Junction Railway crew leaves the yard office and boards venerable BNSF Railway GP30 2447, built in February 1963 as Santa Fe 1247, to begin work switching cars in LAJ's yard in Verno... (more)

Los Angeles Junction Railway continues to use classic railroad switch lanterns in their yard in Vernon, California. Photographed on railroad property with permission and while wearing appropri... (more)

All four of the Los Angeles Junction Railway's CF7s are visible in this image: 2568 (originally Santa Fe F7A 226L, now used as a parts source for the other three), 2563 (originally ATSF F7A 228L)... (more)

BNSF Railway 1201 and 1203 are liquified natural gas fueled MK1200G locomotives. Only four were built, and they are all in service on the Los Angeles Junction Railway in Vernon, California, near ... (more)

Downtown Los Angeles looms in the background as BNSF Railway GP39-2 2951 switches Los Angeles Junction job 117 in the LAJ's yard in Vernon, California. It appears that someone has made an effort ... (more)

BNSF's Barstow to LAJ yard Manifest makes its way around a sharp curve off the UP San Pedro Sub into the Los Angeles Junction Railways main yard along side the LA River.

Los Angeles Junction Railway # 1201 (BNSF) a MK 1500D Liquid Natural Gas locomotive makes a photo run by in Vernon, Calif. on Feb, 28, 2008. Image was produced for a story in Trains Magazine calle... (more)

A crew works the west section of Hobart Yard. The second locomotive BNSF 3703 is an MP15 outfitted with diesel particulate filters in an agreement with the California Air Resources Board.

A B23-7 and a GP39-2, still in Santa Fe paint, stand watch over the parade of trucks entering Hobart Yard in Vernon CA. The Jersey barriers are painted yellow to direct tractor trailers through h... (more)

An LAJ switch job proceeds to pull a cut of cars out of "A" Yard for delivery to a customer on Seville Avenue.

An LAJ switch job pulls west toward S. Boyle Avenue.

This picture sums up LA railfanning for me... tagged units behind a chain link fence. These two are sunning in BNSF's former Santa Fe Hobart Yard, named after the brief-lived town of Hobart, CA, ... (more)