UPP 24567 having Rock Island heritage was part of the trade in for the Big Boy; arrived West Colton off the M NPWC-03 on Jan 5th.

Finding buried treasure inside the West Colton Roundhouse. Built as EMD SD45 CNW 949; rebuilt to MK SD40M-2 SP 8706; now SD40-2 UP 2782 has been retired.

UP 3105 trade in for the UP BigBoy 4014 arrived West Colton off the M FWWC-17 on Dec 20.

Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 is finally heading home to Cheyenne, Wyoming to be restored to operable condition. Train PWCYR2 28 (Passenger, West Colton Yard CA to Yermo CA) is departing West Colto... (more)

UP "Big Boy" 4014 departing West Colton Yard enroute to Yermo, Ca. then onto Cheyenne Wyoming.

January 26th, 2:09 PM. Union Pacific steam locomotive 4014 is carefully backed into a storage track at West Colton California. All eyes of the crewmen are on the ridged truck frame of the massive ... (more)

Bringing up the rear on a Southern Pacific eastbound freight at West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, on January 20th, 1984, are a pair of bay-window cabooses: SP C-40-4 (rebuilt) caboose ... (more)

The lead engine on UP train MWCDAX 25 (Manifest; West Colton CA to Dallas TX; Unscheduled) has seen better days! AC4400CW 6675 (UP calls these C44AC locomotives) has a rather nasty burn on the lo... (more)

Union Pacific SD40Ns 1554 and 1596 leave the West Colton Yard on October 26th, 2013. This train, symboled YWC66 26, is technically a yard job, but in this case it is heading east out of the yard ... (more)

A quintet of 4-axle power leads an eastbound Southern Pacific piggyback train past the railroad's West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, on March 6th, 1985. On the headend is SP B36-7 7762,... (more)

Trains departing Union Pacific's West Colton Yard all depart eastbound, with westbounds making a 180º trip around the balloon track. The head end of UP train MWCLB 27 (Merchandise; West Colton t... (more)

C&NW Heritage SD70ACe 1995 and SD70ACe 8324 lead UP's Fort Worth to West Colton Manifest train under Pepper Ave. Over 6,000 feet beind, trailing 76 loads, 21 empties and 8,000 tons of train, SD... (more)

Sunrise Over West Colton - An eerie orange cast from a foggy morning sunrise spills over the GATX car facility located adjacent to the Former Southern Pacific Classification Yard at West... (more)

Switching cuts of cars at the former Southern Pacific West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, is a trio of EMD six-axle power downgraded for yard use: UPY SD38-2 824 (ex-UPY 824, ex-UP 2824,... (more)

Sitting in Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard in November 1977 are a pair of former Seaboard Coast Line Baldwin RS12 diesels, on their way to the Oregon California & Eastern Railroad. Marked as ... (more)