One of the more bizarre rail incidents I can recall in recent memory occurred in San Pedro yesterday when the PHL daytime Yang Ming Switcher engineer decided to intentionally ram his unit through ... (more)

A year to the day that I shot this same unit at West Colton as PRLX 24, today finds the unit with PHL decals again at West Colton. The unit is returning from the San Antonio research center. Here ... (more)

A PHL Dock Job passes a sea of stored containers as they pass CP-Farragut after spinning their train of containers out of APL.

The 0700 BNSF Dock Job is one of the few PHL Dock Jobs that consistently uses modern road power, but today's edition was using an NRE six axle genset and MP20C-3. Here they're shoving down the &qu... (more)

The 1AM UP Dock Job shoves a train into the ICTF Support Yard. The crew picked up the cars at the Pacific Container Terminal in the Port of Long Beach, and a UP yard crew will classify the cars on... (more)

Various PHL low emissions units including four and six axle MP20s and their lone PR43C wait between assignments at Berth 200. On the right, the 0800 Switcher brings in a unit off the YPHN15 Hanjin... (more)

This is a Test. This is Only a Test...

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach tend to have a higher than average amount of air-borne particulates, due to all the ship, truck and ra... (more)

EMDX 7101, the GP22ECO demonstrator, shoves a cut of borax cars from the facility in Boron, CA into US Borax, deep in the Port of Los Angeles. Engine is ex KCS exx CR originally PC GP40 3173.

PHL's APL dock job is pulling empty stacks out of APL Global Gateway South facility on Terminal Island in the Port of Los Angeles at the "99" switch while a BNSF "shuttle" job switches the makeshi... (more)

Brand new Harbor Belt Line GP7 rebuild 102 sits along side their other new rebuild 101 at Harbor Belt Lines antique engine facility in Wilmington, CA. These are the only two diesel engines that ev... (more)

BNSF inbound trains for Long Beach Container are routinely stored on the Hyuka lead, adjacent the facility, when they arrive before an outbound train departs due to it's cramped facility. The prev... (more)

In 2007, 60 was the first SD40 modified

The Pacific Harbor Line's "West Bank Job" shoves north along Gaffey Street on a rather unique stretch of track. This is the Pacific Electric line from Torrance and the train is now running on a po... (more)

A PHL dock job heads north along the old SP San Pedro Sub, passing an abandoned aggregate loader of some kind on its way to work the docks in Long Beach. While this is the only PR30C in PHL colors... (more)