Heading through the unloader.

The morning mine train nears the USG plant in Plaster City as it brings the day's first load of crushed gypsum from the quarry. The open nose door on the MLW DL535E is common operating practice on... (more)

The morning mine train is getting ready to depart from Plaster City as DL535E pulls up to make a hook with the empty cars. Had to get a shot with a little bit of Alco (or MLW) smoke.

US Gypsum DL-535 #112 rolls across a desert arroyo with a heavy loaded train on the evening of March 26, 2020. This is the last narrow gauge freight railroad in the United States, hauling gypsum r... (more)

USG# 111 crosses the heavily tagged Carrizo Wash Bridge with the afternoon gypsum train bound for the quarry in the Fish Creek Mountain Range.

USG# 112 slowly pulls the morning gypsum train through the unloading chute at Plaster City

Make Life Last, Put Safety First. Important words to live by, especially when working in industry. At the Plaster City, California processing plant DL-535-E #112 spots its train of hopper ... (more)

Looking sharp in new paint, one of US Gypsum's two narrow-gauge DL535Es backs to its train of empty gons as it builds the morning mine run.

Looking sharp in new paint, one of US Gypsum's two narrow-gauge DL535Es backs to its train of empty gons as it builds the morning mine run.

It's a toasty 106 degrees and F-18's roar in the distance as the USG 111 with its new paint scheme departs Plaster City and heads north to the US Gypsum Mine. This must be one of the last freight ... (more)

US Gypsum's narrow gauge mine train unloads at Plaster City.

US Gypsum's morning mine run has just completed unloading and shoves the cars back to their storage siding while the crew will switch out a water car. A narrow gauge MLW unit powers the train.

The next mine run is about to begin as USG's rail crew heads light towards their train on a warm November afternoon.

One of USG's rare narrow gauge DL535Es heads light through the aggregate unloader on its way to pick up a train of empties for a mine run.

Power for the Pacific Imperial has now been sitting in Plaster City for a year or so, just waiting for the railroad to start operations. Unfortunately the open doors look like the vandals have fou... (more)