A worker at the GATX car facility in Bloomington, California (adjacent to the Southern Pacific's West Colton Classification Yard. It's a good thing he's wearing protective gear and clothing, as h... (more)

While it appears that these GATX workers are applying lettering to a box car, this Linde / Union Carbide car is actually a tank car (AAR class XT - a tank inside a box car, used to carry liquified... (more)

SP engine facilities scene

An empty ethanol train gets ready to depart Union Pacific's West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, behind SD70M 4995 and (a rarity for southern California) BNSF SD70MAC 9670, on September 24... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific hauler departs the West Colton Yard and rounds the balloon track. (All trains depart eastbound, with the Los Angeles-bound trains rounding this 360º curve to revers... (more)

A UP hump set awaits work, while track inspection vehicle EC-4 is seen to by a fork lift in the background. Behind that, the massive bowl of West Colton Yard and the shrinking figure of Slover Mou... (more)

A cut of at least seven locomotives moves through the Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard on Bloomington, California, on June 15, 1978. A venerable SD35 leads a pair of newer SD40T-2s and a varie... (more)

A typically motley assortment of power at Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, on August 31, 1988: SP SD40T-2 8315 (in the "Kodachrome" scheme for the ill-fated SPSF me... (more)

All trains assembled in Southern Pacific's large West Colton Yard, in Bloomington, California, depart eastbound. Here we see a westbound negotiating the reverse curve used for trains heading to L... (more)

VMV GP40 6673, seen here in Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, began life as Seaboard Air Line 601 (then SCL 1516, SBD 6673 and CSXT 6673). Unfortunately, most of VMV... (more)

A Southern Pacific westbound approaches the large West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, with a typically eclectic late-1970s consist that includes U33C, SD40T-2, SD45 and SD45T-2 models. I... (more)

Peeking out from under bridge, this lead unit of a hump set was especially made for this job and probably still there today.

Ex C&NW E8 FEC 000097 is seen here getting ready to be put on the Q WCTU-17 at West Colton round house.

A short Union Pacific train MNPWC 17, just coming off the Palmdale Cutoff (and over Cajon Pass) threads its way through the east end of a very busy West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, beh... (more)

A pair of different hybrid diesels can be compared in this shot of Union Pacific GG20B 2315 and 3GS21B 2720 at the West Colton Yard's diesel shop in Bloomington, California.