San Diego and Imperial Valley 702 has a crane on each side of the locomotive. When I took the photograph, I figured the engine had derailed and was now back on the rails, or it would soon be lift... (more)

Awaiting its next nighttime assignment.

A single SDIV genset awaits its next assignment in their yard in San Diego.

One of the few remaining gensets left in SoCal waits between assignments at the SDIV yard in downtown San Diego.

Arizona & California's GP40-3, rebuilt from a Florida East Coast GP40, awaits its next run on sister road San Diego & Imperial Valley. SDIV trains can only run at night after the trolley has shut ... (more)

Arizona & California's GP40-3, rebuilt from a Florida East Coast GP40, awaits its next run on sister road San Diego & Imperial Valley. SDIV trains can only run at night after the trolley has shut ... (more)

San Diego & Imperial Valley NRE 3GS21B locomotive 702 trundles through the yard just south of downtown San Diego on March 14th, 2013. The catenary on the adjacent tracks are for the MTS trolley s... (more)

A close look at one of the NRE 3GS21B motors in San Diego Yard. Almost an FEC flashback with the RA scheme.

A look at the yards of the short line San Diego and Imperial Valley as well as the MTS. The San Diego & Imperial Valley is San Diego's own short line operating mainly at night.

The trolley bar and adjoining yard use to be the main shops of the San Diego & Arizona (Eastern was added after a takeover by SP). The railroad was constructed in the early 1910s to create a secon... (more)

This is about as railroad as San Diego gets. Just south of downtown and the Padres' Petco Park, the San Diego trolley, local shortline San Diego & Imperial Valley and BNSF each have small yards ne... (more)

San Diego & Imperial Valley's two new NRE 3GS21B locomotives, 701 and 702, rest in downtown San Diego on March 30, 2010.

An eclectic collection of power sits in the San Diego & Imperial Valley Railroad's yard beside Petco Park (home of MLB's Padres) in downtown San Diego, CA on December 20, 2008: RMPX SW1500 2687 (... (more)