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)

PHL 34 shoves a cut of US Borax covered hoppers down the lead to their storage and transload facility in the Port of Los Angeles.

With the active fleet now entirely comprised of new NRE and MPI-built Genset locomotives, PHL NRE 3GS21B #30 rests in the Wilmington, CA locomotive facility on a quiet Saturday morning. Other loco... (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)

A Pacific Harbor Line Genset and a BNSF Liquified Natural Gas MK1200G are being started up for the day at Knoll during a pending Winter storm. The units are on the Tosco Spur and will be used to ... (more)

On New Years Eve one of PHL's new locomotives slowly moves around the wye.

Pacific Harbor Line MP20C-3 61 switches a cut of well cars at Mole, on Terminal Island in the Los Angeles / Long Beach ports.

LLPX 2801 sits in the yard. Taken with permission.

LLPX 2801 is on lease to the Pacific Harbor Line in the Los Angeles / Long Beach harbor area. This engine is ex-GATX 1237, nee-RSMX 1237.

LLPX 2801, leased to Pacific Harbor Line, switches the ITS terminal in Long Beach CA.