A late running Amtrak 3 passes thru the Colton/Grand Terrace area in early morning.

UP 1546 Approaches Pepper Ave. while train building at the Union Pacific West Colton yard. Hand held pan shot 1/15 second, f/2.8, ISO 1600, Canon 5D with a 70mm - 200mm f/2.8L.

UP 8734 leads a manifest freight on a second main as it approaches the West Colton yard while a 2mile+ stack train waits for a new crew on the other main.

Departing Union Pacific’s West Colton Yard for Portland, Oregon, is train MWCPT-17. This train is almost all on the railroad’s Mojave Sub (the former Southern Pacific Palmdale Cutoff, built o... (more)

KCS 4036 leads a westbound manifest into West Colton seen from the Pepper Ave overpass.

UP 7046 backs down to it's train at Pepper Ave.

A string of light engines departs West Colton for Yerma.

A Santa Theresa intermodal heads east under the iconic Pepper overpass.

Westbound BNSF manifest tied down at Rana.

Business as usual at West Colton on Thanksgiving 2020.

A quintet of Union Pacific SD40s and SD40-2s drag a unit train of export coal across the Southern Pacific at Colton Crossing in the late 1970s, not too long before Colton Tower (visible behind SD4... (more)

One of Southern Pacific’s "Haulers," short-haul freights that transferred cars between yards, large or small, departed the railroad’s West Colton Yard eastbound, as all departures do... (more)

Coaster's newest locomotives ride BNSF rails westbound thru Colton heading to San Diego County.

BNSF 6570 leads the JWCLSTZ (West Colton to Stuart Mesa) light engine move with 2 brand new Coaster Chargers.

Santa Fe loco 3031 seems to be on some type of switching or transfer movement around the Colton diamonds.