Specially painted SP SD40R 7347 for the 1984 summer Olympic games in Los Angeles. This unit still dressed in Olympic paint livery was wrecked/scraped 8/85 at Westminster, Colorado while on the Bu... (more)

SP GP40X 7231 at the SP Taylor Yard in Los Angeles.

Lots of power at the Union Pacific Los Angles yard and engine facility in 1981. Today includes visitors from Conrail and former Frisco units now with BN markings under the cab. Photo taken with pe... (more)

SP 7347 the specially painted unit for 1984 summer Olympics in Los Angeles sits next to the SP World's Fair Daylight train at the Union Station.

SP 4449 and the Louisiana World's Fair Daylight bask in the glorious afternoon sunshine at Los Angeles Union Station.

Chatsworth Rocks, in Santa Susana Pass in the northwest corner of Los Angeles, was the location of countless early Western films, from silent movies up to Roy Rogers’ television show. It has also... (more)

Two Amtrak long-distance trains are prepped for their evening departures at the "Launching Pad," at the carrier’s Redondo Junction facility about three miles south of downtown L.A. The ... (more)

As Amtrak train 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, departs Los Angeles Union Station, Metrolink train 328 (behind SCAX MP36PH-3C 888, also departs L.A.’s Union Station. Both trains are runn... (more)

Not something you see everyday A rare SP GE U50 # 9950. The SP had only 3 of these Monsters. A lot of People thought they were ugly but I thought they were neat. This one along with Some U28C ... (more)

Amtrak 3 arrives in Los Angeles with AMTK 42 in the lead. They're seen passing the growing deadline of Metrolink F59 variants at Keller Yard.

Another day draws to a close in downtown Los Angeles as some of the heavily tagged graffiti Union Pacific power rests in J Yard between assignments.

Coming up just shy of the diamond at San Pedro Junction, BNSF yard power working the west end of the intermodal facility at Commerce begin to shove back into the yard as they continue their steady... (more)

All is quiet at Amtrak's Redondo maintenance shops as the AMKTK 509 soaks up the late afternoon light.

A pair of cabbages are seen at Amtrak's Redondo Junction maintenance facility in the last light of the day, one looking much better than the other. Unfortunately, the patriotic-painted AMTK 90208 ... (more)

Framed by aging power in the form of P42DC AMTK 53 and Dash-832BWH AMTK 507, a trio of new, Siemens-built Charger locomotives (in numerical order, I might add) stand ready at Redondo Junction prio... (more)