Crew arriving for work

KCCX 705 is parked inside the GATX facility after having been repainted. In the background,UP 9641 leads a set of power off the main to head to the engine terminal.

UP 9648 and UP 8497 pause before shoving back to hook up to their train. A westbound container train is passing by on the main while a consist of coal loads is being shoved back into the yard (lo... (more)

A short stack train comes off the Palmdale Cut-off as another stack train hold on the balloon track as both enter West Colton Yard.

Southern Pacific U25B 6760 (ex-7560), U33C 8711 and SD45 9083 make an eastbound light engine movement through Colton, CA, on Christmas Eve 1976.

The Robertson Rock Train enters West Colton Yard on the balloon track. It's nice to see the rock train using C45ACCTE's finally.

The UP/GE Green Locomotive Technology Tour stops at West Colton Yard. Here is the first road locomotive retrofitted with oxidation catalyst aftertreatment! Big words for UP, or we could call it an... (more)

One of two remaining, and working, wig-wag signals on 9th St in Colton. Idecided to shoot this on a cloudy as it added a more dramatic effect to the signal and photo, black and white without being... (more)

The UP/GE Green Locomotive Technology Tour stops at West Colton Yard. Here is a tight shot of the front end and number plates on the new C45ACCTE, UP 7605. Note the camera is now in an enclosure a... (more)

The UP/GE Green Locomotive Technology Tour stops at West Colton Yard. Here is the engineers stand on the new C45ACCTE, UP 7605.

The UP/GE Green Locomotive Technology Tour stops at west Colton Yard. All the engines have green technology or have been retrofitted with technology to reduce emissions.

A grain train makes their daily run from BNSF Barstow Yard to UP West COlton Yard. Here the train comes off the BNSF San Bernardino Sub onto the UP Yuma Sub.

Two "Green Goats" await their crew for the day before they start their work along the Riverside Lead.

Lightpower sits at the wye at Old Colton Yard as a stack train proves to be the train crossing in front of this sign that seems to have no other purpose.

A Santa Fe freight passes under Interstate 10 and bisects the Southern Pacific's Sunset Route at Colton Crossing as it heads toward Los Angeles' Hobart Yard on March 29, 1980. Leased Chessie Syst... (more)