Portrait of a failed experiment. Running with borrowed BN Locotrol equipped SD-40-2s and SP mid train units controlled through a BN Locotrol receiver car trains were something to see for a few we... (more)

One of those delightfully mixed up consists shepherded by a usually reliable unit is preparing to depart for LA. Most of them were on a short leash.

A mixture of UP and CSX power is hostled onto a waiting train as a Westbound stack train drops down from the Palmdale Cutoff.

SD90mac 8084 shoves on the rear of a Westbound manifest train seen form the Pepper St overpass.

A unit train of TTX spine cars with Union Pacific spine trailers stretching more than a mile long cruises through West Colton

Ex-Southern Pacific 8526, patched for its current owner is hostled into position onto an outbound freight.

Here's another one. Not only are they beautiful they're clean and the "lobotomy" SP did on them doesn't show.

Two matched yard units look great.

An Eastbound mixed freight heads out of the yard and into a flock of birds.

Easing into West Colton after a trip down the Palmdale Cutoff, the WP and SP heritage motors plus the UP 2002 Olympic engine approach Pepper Ave. with the KG1LA-30 as a hoard of foamers click away... (more)

After living there in the 70s it seems strange to see GE power as an everyday thing when I returned. Hear a WB prepares to leave and not an EMD in the consist.

Rare even thirty years ago, this old boat has triggered considerable activity among the "foamers" gathered on the great overpass.

These great looking units worked the yard for several years.

I believe this is the only shot I have of a unit attached to an ex-Trainmaster brake trailer.

I'm just guessing this was a recently retired Houston unit but I don't remember seeing it around before or after this shot.