Union Pacific AC6000CW 6965 was constructed by General Electric in January 2001. On December 6, 2010, it was downgraded to 4400 horsepower and dubbed (by the UP) an AC44/60CW. (Compton, Californ... (more)

No, this is not a Norfolk Southern yard ... it just looks that way after a quartet of NS power arrived in southern California on a Union Pacific intermodal train. On this end of the six unit lash... (more)

BNSF train S-CBLSCO1-22A, led by ES44C4 7173, sits on the Alameda Corridor (the 20-mile [32 km] freight rail "expressway" owned by the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority [ATAX] th... (more)

Heading to Lynwood's Cargill Milling, Union Pacific's Reyes Switcher (train LOG11R 29) heads north on the railroad's Patada Industrial Lead, paralleling the trench that contains the Alameda Corrid... (more)

At one-month-old, Union Pacific ES44AC 7385 has yet to accumulate much road grime upon it. (Dolores Yard, Compton, California - April 15, 2009)

Parked on the Union Pacific's Dolores Industrial Spur is a four-unit set of power off an intermodal train that recently arrived to be unloaded at the nearby ICTF Intermodal Terminal. Three-fourth... (more)

A typical set of power awaiting its next assignment at Union Pacific's Dolores Industrial Lead: UP ES44AC 7752, UP SD70M 4913. UP ES44AC 7702, Norfolk Southern SD70M-2 2673, NS Dash 9-40C 8817 an... (more)

CSX Transportation Dash 8-40C 7492, seen here at Union Pacific’s Dolores Industrial Lead, was built by General Electric in March 1989 as Conrail 6037. When Conrail was broken up between CSX and... (more)

Late in the afternoon, Union Pacific train LOG16R 14, technically the 7400 Zone Switcher out of Mead, but popularly called the Vopak Switcher, navigates the S-curve at the north end ... (more)

Norfolk Southern Railway Dash 9-40CW 9451, built by General Electric in March 2000, sits at the northern end of Union Pacific's Dolores Yard between assignments. (Compton, California – May 29, ... (more)

Sitting in the north end of Union Pacific’s Dolores Yard is 21,600 horsepower, resting after arriving on a westbound and later being called for an eastbound. Besides providing the muscle, CSX T... (more)

National Railway Equipment built a whopping total of one GS14B "Truck Engine Switcher" (TES), Union Pacific Y2005 (numbered for the year is was built), powered by a pair of Cummins 700hp... (more)

Southern Pacific MP15DC 2690 was rebuilt by National Railway Equipment into a "Truck Engine Switcher" (TES), or GS14B. A pair of Cummins 700hp truck engines are under the hoods of this ... (more)

As Pacific Harbor Line train YPSW24-05 rolled down the Union Pacific's UP Reyes Spur, the crew had to stop and adjust, to put it mildly, a new addition to an awning added to a camper sitting by th... (more)

Progress Rail Services 24, a PR24B demonstrator, was testing with Pacific Harbor Line 3GS21C 80 on the Alameda Corridor. PRLX 24 was built in October 2016 from PRLX GP40 3011 (ex-Wisconsin Centra... (more)