The AM J-Yard switcher shoves back against its train for the return trip to the J-Yard.

The J Yard switcher runs light on ROW that once held the SP San Pedro Line. Los Angeles City Hall rises above in the background.

The J Yard switcher heads light through some tight alleys on the grounds of the old brewery in Vernon.

BNSF's Malabar Switcher does most of its work in hard to photograph Malabar Yard. Here it pokes its nose out of the yard to clear a cut of cars across a switch.

What could be a BNSF shuttle job or LACLAC switches baretables in front of Hobart Tower.

The East Industries Job has finished for the day and dropped its train along Downey Road where it will soon be manned again by the South Industries Job in a gritty area of LA where freight in clas... (more)

After waiting for two BNSF westbounds to clear up, UP YLA51 heads over the diamonds at Hobart Tower, now known as "San Pedro Jct."

The East Industries Job shoves along Jewel, passing 4 Seasons Merchandise in Vernon on its way to Cargil.

Doesn't get much more inner city or gritty than this. The East Industries Job shoves over Downey Road to enter the Vernon Lead with a delivery for Cargil.

Westbound stacks for the Harbor zip through Hobart Yard and pass the iconic Hobart Tower (now abandoned). This train originated in Kansas City and is on its way to the LA/Long Beach Harbor.

BNSF Railway owns nine NRE 3GS21C locomotives, and on August 17th, 2013, 1307 and 1303 were working at the railroad's Hobart Yard. BNSF 1307 was built by NRE in Paducah, Kentucky, in August 2010 ... (more)

One of the sets of power working BNSF Railway's Hobart Yard, southeast of downtown Los Angeles, consists of GP60M 116 (ex-ATSF 116) and SD40-2 1887 (ex-BNSF 6769, nee-ATSF 5112).

Union Pacific train YJY68R 21, the "J-Yard Switcher," trundles down the rough trackage of track 842 after dropping off a cut of covered hoppers and tank cars at Sweetener Products in Vernon, Calif... (more)

The J-Yard Switcher shoves a set of loads into one of Sweetener Products three spurs in Vernon on its warehouse properties along the former Hamm's Brewery location. This neat operation runs down a... (more)

As a pair of workers pulling a Sunday shift poke their heads out of the door to see what all the noise is about, Union Pacific's "J-Yard Switcher" shoves back on track 842 to pick up some cars at ... (more)