The West Colton to El Centro manifest heads East with UP 8080 as the rear DPU.

After comming to a stop at Rana, a Westbound stack train gets underway as it heads towards Hobart yard in Los Angeles.

UP's IDILBF heads west past a MOW gang working on 2 of the lead tracks at West Colton.

A new Railamerica Genset sits on a string of deadlined locomotives at West Colton Yard.

NS pool power is in DPU service as it shoves on the rear of a UP stack train heading up the Palmdale Cutoff

This critter stands guard on display in front of the GATX facility in Colton, California. It is a JLB2, built by Plymouth Locomotive (in Plymouth, OH) in March of 1930. It has been stuffed and mou... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe freight slams across the diamonds at Colton, home still (at this time) to the wooden Colton Tower, which controls the Santa Fe / Southern Pacific crossing. The ATSF train is ... (more)

KG3LB-09 with UP 1983, 1995 and Olympic Unit 2002 enters the West Colton Yard.

UP 8453 leads a local out of West Colton as a manifest passes by on the main line. The departure yard is amazingly empty except for a couple power consists.

In their zeal to have everything CR the managers decided to go from just drab to UGLY and drab. Here one of their monstrosities leads an SP eastbound. This may actually be Loma Linda, I don't kn... (more)

This is a short nose version of the ubiquitous tunnel motor fighting its way up the grade on the Palmdale cutoff.

A snoot drifts down to the big interlocking. I used to refer to the ledge under the freeway here as "Hobo Union Terminal" The bos and the empty Santa Fe Ruby Port bottles (20% alcohol and $1.95 ... (more)

Every so often the big Alcos would come chugging down to the tower, cross the ATSF & UP main and proceed east. We could almost imagine they were going to keep going but it was just a cut of cars ... (more)

There is only one survivor in this photo and I’ll give you two guesses who it is. Well, things were pretty rough for this old wig wag, judging by the less than perfect paint job on its bent up o... (more)

An unpatched SSW engine works the Riverside Lead over the Santa Ana River.