The Valla Switcher pulls into Los Nietos to swap trains as they pass the searchlight that acts as an approach signal for trains leaving the yard.
LOA36R works Valla Yard with an ex-MP GP38.
What truly the most sad about these horribly tagged engines is that they are not the worst I've seen in downtown LA, even in the last couple days. I really hope a time comes that this stops.
The J-Yard Switcher shoves a set of loads into one of Sweetener Products three spurs in Vernon on its warehouse properties along the former Hamm's Brewery location. This neat operation runs down a... (more)
As a pair of workers pulling a Sunday shift poke their heads out of the door to see what all the noise is about, Union Pacific's "J-Yard Switcher" shoves back on track 842 to pick up some cars at ... (more)
Power for the J Yard switch jobs waits silently on a quite Sunday evening with the huge Sears Warehouse (actually called the Sears Tower) sits mostly empty and abandoned behind it (there is a reta... (more)
One from the archives: Quite by chance, I caught up with Union Pacific's Park City Local with a trio of vintage GP30's (#806, 718, 805) curving north along Silver Creek approaching Wanship, Utah. ... (more)
The local pauses for a moment as one of the crew members throws the switch for the LA Times Plant. They have just finished their work they and are about to go pick up the empties and shove back to... (more)
