Four SDP40Fs are on the headend of train 3, the westbound Southwest Limited, because this train is delivering new locomotive 587, built in May 1974, which will be assigned to Amtrak trains ... (more)

While checking out the location of the Pacific Harbor Line's former enginehouse at their now-gone Pier A Yard, a pair of NRE 3GS21B locomotives, PHL 30 and 31, were found crossing Alameda Street w... (more)

Midday gathering of Southern California Regional Rail Authority trainsets before the rush.

Still sitting on one of Taylor Yard’s turntable whisker tracks some two years after being retried following a wreck in Willowbrook (Compton CA) in mid-1983, Southern Pacific GP9E 3346 (ex-SP GP9... (more)

Los Angeles' iconic city hall provides the backdrop as Amtrak train 3, The Super Chief, has arrived on Los Angeles Union Station's Track 12 with a trio of new SDP40F diesels for power: AMT... (more)

Metrolink ran a test train utilizing DOTX 216 test car and then parked the former Budd Metroliner on an escape track at LAUS for pickup. Metroliner cars are not foreign to LAUS as they were used a... (more)

Pacific Harbor Line train YPSW24-05, the Reyes Switcher, backs down the PHL’s Wilmington Lead in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles, heading another 7 miles north in order to swit... (more)

First Union Rail SD40-2 7931 is seen on a power set at BNSF Railway’s Watson Yard. Built in April 1980 as Burlington Northern 7931, this locomotive became part of the Burlington Northern Santa ... (more)

The heritage of CIT Equipment Finance Corporation SD60 6001 is fairly obvious – This engine is the former Soo Line 6001. SOO 6001 was built by EMD in July 1987, and was found on May 17, 2007, i... (more)

The major difference in appearance between Southern Pacific's GS-3 and GS-4 Northern-type steam locomotives was the front end. The former had a single headlight on the conical-shaped, silver-pain... (more)

The San Gabriel Switcher crew meets a yard engine parked at Aurant on a clear late fall morning in LA.

Third unit on the roster, this one was built in 1968 and will soon finish its twentieth year for SP. Photo by Tony Vanier. From my collection.

The El Segundo Local enters the Torrance Industrial Lead in South LA with three horrifically graffitied EMDs.

A BNSF "stack-anol" (combined stack and ethanol train) comes out of the Alameda Corridor at Harbor Junction, south of downtown Los Angeles on March 18, 2022.

Having finished up switching Wise Transfer with cars for Chevron, the El Segundo Local is seen here heading back to LA, passing under the freeway railroad tunnel at South Los Angeles, running long... (more)