Trona Railway's evening Turn to the UP interchange heads out of the other-worldly landscape on it's mainline as they approach Searles.

The Boron Local arrives at the massive Rio Tinto (former US Borax) plant in Boron with a trio of rebuilt GP60M-3s for power. This is a far cry from the hot TOFC trains these units were built for.

EMD 645 prime movers echo through the valley as Trona Railway's interchange train bound for the UP at Searles departs Trona with a heavy train.

Ex-SP and UP SD40 variants shove on the rear of a loaded Trona train as it departs town. The famous Trona Pinnacles in the background above the head end power.

A couple visitors to the beaches of San Clemente gaze up at a late, daylight H-BARSDG1 as the train rolls along the Pacific Ocean on the ex-ATSF "Surf Line".

A PHL Dock Job passes a sea of stored containers as they pass CP-Farragut after spinning their train of containers out of APL.

A Metrolink commuter train passes the beaches of San Clemente bound for the Inland Empire.

The Gardena Rock Train takes the Wilmington Sub into South Central LA with a newer GE leading.

A since-rebuilt GP60M leads the 1st Watson out of the Jungle and towards Alcoa for its set out at Exxon.

The 1700 UP Dock Job begins their shift running around the wye at CP-Marina before picking up their first cut of well cars.

The 1430 Switcher arrives back at Berth 200 with some guys from Vopak.

Marion, AR-bound ILXMN-22 departs CP-Alameda with 4 EMDs including an NS SD60M as another EMD sits on the Dominguez Spurs in the foreground.

The YW304J auto transfer switches cars at 9th Street in Long Beach. This is a new BNSF job, symboled Y-WAT3041 on home rails and known as the "742". It breaks down and builds cuts of autos between... (more)

Power for the KLCAI runs along the LA River just after the Metrolink commuter rush.

The 2nd Watson splits a couple cuts of autoracks at Ironsides with a GP60 leading the way. The autos are new editions of the Harbor Sub, temporarily stored until the evening 742 job can bring them... (more)