UP 5261 in fresh paint waits to take a trip around the balloon track at West Colton.
The Lackawanna-heritage unit leads the very-low-priority KAILC through Southern California on its way to LATC near downtown Los Angeles. Railfans in SoCal were waiting on this train for at least 2... (more)
EMDX 1602 awaits assignment at West Colton this morning.
A pair of KCS units along with a CSX motor are the head end power for this westbound Yermo bound military train. Bad news was UP decided to add a filthy SD70 to the point here for the climb up Caj... (more)
Modelers take note:This freshly-painted Union Pacific GP38-2 is so clean that, at first glance, it appears to be an unweathered model. But even a clean unit has a little dirt, as e... (more)
Still Preferable to a Wide-Nose (IMHO)The headlights belie the heritage of Union Pacific 581, seen in Colton, California, on July 12, 2003. This GP38-2 was built by EMD in May 1980... (more)
Amtrak Heritage unit 156 and Veterans unit 42 lead the westbound Southwest Chief south of Colton just after sunrise.
Recently repainted UP 6395 at West Colton.
PRLX 24 in Cat paint awaits being delivered to the PHL at UP's West Colton yard.
One of UP's newest 2017 delivery Tier3 credit ES44AC's seen from Pepper Ave.
Packed house at West Colton!
UP SD70ACe T4 3014 brings up the rear of this MWCRVB as it departs West Colton.
UP 5406, an NLR repaint is on the point of a 3 unit set of power backing down to their train, seen from the Pepper Ave overpass.
5 units lead a westbound Z through Rana, near the old Laural St crossing, which was part of a grade separation project and now a new pair of signal bridges protect the crossovers here.
A late running Amtrak 3 passes the new signal bridges at Rana, just south of San Bernardino.