A gift from the heavens. Cloudy all day, the sun finally broke out during the golden hour just as this southbound transfer run from Hobart Yard appeared on the horizon. I’m standing on the south sidewalk of Pacific Blvd., facing north. Malabar Yard is directly behind me. The tank cars are from Exxon/Mobil about a […]
“In photography, “golden hour” refers to the first hour after sunrise and the last hour before sunset, when the sun is low on the horizon, producing a warm, soft light ideal for capturing stunning images.” Google AI I bought my house 28 years ago. It’s surprising that it’s taken me almost three decades to realize my […]
My March 7 blog featured a model of one of the staged new car publicity shots that were so popular in the 1950s and 1960s complete with one of the ubiquitous Foster and Kleiser billboards. Although the billboards are clearly ads, there was some hard-to-define “something” that made them captivating. I decided to revisit the […]
A nondescript boxcar sits silently under a palm tree near the Everett Avenue crossing in Los Angeles in the Don Draper/Mad Men era. When I go out in the field to rail fan, I know going in that the odds are against actually catching a train. I’m fine with that and simply enjoy taking in […]
In an era of unfiltered cigarettes and leaded gas, the LAJ switch job pulls eastward across District Blvd back to A Yard after a hard day’s work.