Having just dropped its pulls from the Torrance Industrial Lead back at Centralia, the El Segundo Local now begins a long pull west down its namesake industrial lead on its way to its namesake cit... (more)

Delivered to the Southern Pacific in March of 1980 SP 7662, UP 1413 is now held together by rust and spray paint. She shoves a long string of cars into Conoco Philips the day after Christmas.

Delivered to the Southern Pacific in March of 1980 is SP 7662, UP 1413 is now held together by rust and spray paint. She shoves a long string of cars into Conoco Philips the day after Christmas.

Tagging is a brutal reality of the local railroading scene in the urban areas of Los Angeles and the worst parts of it are on the Torrance and El Segundo Industrial Leads. On the day after Christm... (more)

A Saturday only move (symbol-wise at least) sees the El Segundo Local (or LOW20) work the Conoco Philips plant on the Torrance Industrial Lead (normally served by the Monday through Friday Torranc... (more)

The El Segundo Local begins its shove into Grain Craft the morning after Christmas with a long cut of cars.

When I found out that the last SP GP40-2 on the UP roster was working on the El Segundo Local there was one shot I knew I wanted and it was this, of the train coming in onto the Wilmington Sub wit... (more)

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, builds another day's version of the El Segundo local alongside the Los Angeles River the day after Christmas in a ... (more)

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, crosses Central Avenue in Nickerson Gardens (this is the area for which South Central gets its name, as this is Ce... (more)

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, begins its run south after working Grain Craft.

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, begins its run south after working Grain Craft with LA City Hall in the background.

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, pulls through an abandoned shopping mall on the El Segundo Industrial Lead on a beautiful Saturday morning in Sout... (more)

The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, shoves towards the end of the El Segundo Industrial Lead on a beautiful Saturday morning in Southern California.

The El Segundo Local (looking a bit like a nursery school finger painting project gone wrong) comes around the curve onto the Torrance Industrial Lead to work Conoco Philips. Trailing unit is the ... (more)

Union Pacific's El Segundo Local has just picked up the pulls it had left in Hawthorne for its run to the end of the branch, and is now on its way back to Los Angeles. The pipe barely visible to t... (more)