In the warm afternoon glow of a January day (therefore, about 4:45 pm), a Southern Pacific Railroad freight prepares to depart westbound from the City of Industry Yard on the Basin District's Los ... (more)

Southern Pacific GP40-2 7677, built by EMD in March 1980, was photographed on a dark day in American history – September 11. No, not that really dark day in US history, but the one that was a d... (more)

Metrolink 302 pulls east into Bassett with an F125.

An F59 leads 302 through the interlocking at Bassett bound for San Bernardino.

A San Bernardino bound commuter train heads off the flyover at Bassett behind a venerable F59.

A rather short Los Angeles Hauler approaches Bassett out of the early morning sun with but wisps of the mountains in the background.

SP 4449 blasts through the City of Industry with the eastbound Louisiana World's Fair Daylight destined for New Orleans.

SP 3208 painted in the SPSF merger scheme leads two more SDP45's, the 3202 and 3203 plus a SD45T-2 Eastbound on a cab hop.

Cotton Belt Incognito

Southern Pacific SD45T-2 9392, SP SD45 7477 and a Cotton Belt GP60 lead a westbound manifest through Union Pacific's Puente Junction in the City of Industry, Ca... (more)

Leaving the curves behind, ATSF 3751 is getting up to speed again, about to cross Amar Road on the climb toward Baldwin Park and points east.

A caboose brings up the rear on a Union Pacific freight passing through City of Industry, California, in the 1970s.

Union Pacific 3000, the railroad's "class" SD40, leads a trio of SD40-2s westbound through the City of Industry in southern California in the 1970s. UP's low-numbered SD40s were unique in their u... (more)

CSX power was extremely common in southern California on the Southern Pacific in the early 1990s, especially when the intermodal facility at City of Industry became a satellite facility for CSX In... (more)

Just when you think you've seen it all... As Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 4014 is ferried to West Colton Yard, a number of the steam crew members and a UP police officer take advantage of the emp... (more)

UP 4884 pulls the special move of UP 4014 to West Colton as they pass through the City of Industry.