A BNSF Dash 9 that has just been dropped from a light engine move, takes on a crew of its own (of hostelers) as it prepares to become a DPU on an outbound train from the harbor.
A BNSF power awaits its next assignment on the tie up track with half the engines sitting in Wilmington California and half in Carson California as they are parked on the border.
The 2nd Watson heads out of the Harbor region with the usual GP60 power. The Long Beach skyline can be seen on the left.
The 8AM Switcher shoves to Borax on a hot summer morning.
The YPSW08 0800 Switcher gets their day started with a shove down the street to US Borax to switch out cars to and from the mine in the Mojave Desert at Boron. PHL's four 4-axle gensets seem to be... (more)
UP's Compton Switcher LOG09R shoves down the PHL Long Beach Sub at Wilmington as they begin their shift working customers west of Dolores Yard. Long Beach's gensets looked substantially better tha... (more)
Empty auto transfer AMLLBR arrives in Wilmington as they yard their train at PHL's Transfer Yard.
One of the afternoon PHL Switchers takes a cut of cars which had been delivered from BNSF's Watson Yard earlier in the day and breaks them into cuts with the EMD GP22ECO demonstrator for power.
A pair of H2 GP60Ms take the 2nd Watson out of town in the late evening.
YPBN10 brings an outbound BNSF stack train out of Terminal Island and towards Long Beach, where more cars will be picked up before the train is handed off to a BNSF road crew.
The Reyes Switcher makes a detour at the beginning on their shift as they shove a cut of cars down the street to US Borax before heading up to the Reyes Industrial Lead.
The outbound loaded slabs build at Pasha in the Port of LA.
The daytime Watson yard job finishes spotting up n U-AXTWAT7-07A ethanol train from Axtell, NE.
The loaded slab power heads towards the Harbor.
The slabs arrive at Pasha to pick up their loaded outbound train.