A westbound running "Elephant Style" comes around the balloon track as another awaits its turn on the turnaround loop.
I think these are rebuilds. Nice, none the less.
Local power -- Union Pacific GP30 859 and GP20 492 sit in Colton, California on Christmas Eve, 1976.
UP 2769, built as an SD45P, and another patched former SP motor pull a train out of the bowl as a sea of SD60M lcomotives wait for carmen to complete their inspections and air tests in the departu... (more)
UP 2510 sits at the engine service facility at Union Pacific's West Colton Yard.
A clean unpatched DRGW engine works along 9th St on the Riverside Lead
One of three SP Bicentennial diesels...
Santa Fe SD45-2 5700 was formerly one of the railroads five Bicentennial units, seen here passing the everpresent MOW forces working on the diamonds where the Santa Fe crosses the Southern Pacific... (more)
Some SD70ACe's sit locked down at Old Colton Yard
Southern Pacific C-50-7 caboose 4627 and Cotton Belt C-50-5 caboose 79 bring up the rear on an eastbound at Colton, California.
Surviving two mergers, DRGW 3117 still wears Rio Grange colors in 2005.
DRGW 3117 sits with a patched SP GP40-2 at West Colton. The mountians in the background are almost totally obscured by smog.
Santa Fe high-priority "Super C" blows past the tower protecting the crossing with Southern Pacific's Sunset Route at Colton on Boxing Day 1972.
Only 40 GP30B diesels were built, and all were owned by the Union Pacific.
With Cajon Pass now behind it, UP 951 passes Pepper Ave. as it enters West Colton yard under overcast skies on a late October 2002 evening. A UP westbound stack train waits on the bypass track at ... (more)