UP 8001 leads a Dallas bound manifest out of West Colton yard, with a NS unit trailing 3rd out, as it begins its trip across the Yuma Sub.

UP 1995 seen at Pepper Street heading to its train that it will be leading to Phoenix.

UP 1995 backs down to its train that it will lead to Phoenix Arizona.

Mid morning finds a Eastbound stack train passing the east end of UP's West Colton yard.

NS pool power leads a LATC bound intermodal past Pepper Street.

A Westbound intermodal drops down off the Palmdale Cutoff, as the DPU on a Eastbound manifest heads out of town.

Seen from the Pepper Street overpass, a Westbound with 2 standard cab CSX units heads towards a crew change at Cedar.

UP's Kaiser Hauler heads out of West Colton where it will take the balloon track and head west on the Alhambra Sub to Kaiser yard.

After the sunsets, the outbound crew gets on the a manifest heading to Arden, NV with the Southern Pacific Heritage locomotive leads it.

UP 8220 shoves on the rear of a Eastbound manifest leaving West Colton yard in the late afternoon.

Road power for a Arden Nevada bound manifest heads to its train. Heritage unit 1996 will be leading the train this evening.

Eastbound MWCNP leaves West Colton in the early morning.

Heavily used crossings need near constant repair, and the diamonds in Colton, where the Santa Fe's Third Subdivision (on which Union Pacific has trackage rights) crosses the Southern Pacific's Sun... (more)

Nice looking example and probably the last ATSF of the type I'll ever post.

May and it's already hot in SoCal with the "haze" over the hills. The track boys have cleared up enough to let a hot train through, leaving their materials lying trackside. The operator has aler... (more)