Tree's, Snow, Train's, Friend's .. Aint' That Enough?

I spent Saturday the 26th of January 2008 up in Cajon Pass with friends and photographing trains. During times between them the camera wanders to people, mountain's and shrubs. A few spots where I perched myself had tree's that were more or less dead and not much of a tree.. but for this post, I will call them tree's.
Above are two of my favorites from Saturday.
We had friendship...
Trains to photograph...
Clean Air...
Snow on the surrounding mountains...
And a wonderful Sunrise...
So with that I offer up the music track that spawned the name of my blog
Teenage Fanclub - Aint That Enough

Also of note - there is now a Playlist of music at the bottom of this blog page that you can listen to.

Time For a Railroad Photo Favorite of 2007

I have been going through my railroad images of 2007 the last few weeks and doing sorting and tagging in prep for archiving them. Also pulling aside favorites for my annual favorites slide show presentation.
This image of ATSF 3751 shoving through Amtrak's Redondo facility in downtown Los Angeles, CA is on that list of favorites. It was taken shortly after sunset from the Olympic Street bridge over the Los Angeles River as the SBRHS's pride was shoving back to the Redondo turntable after a exciting run from Fullerton to LA. It was in Fullerton over the weekend of May 4th through the 6th for the "Fullerton Railroad Days"
I will share more favorites as I come across them.

Johnie's Broiler - Downey, CA

One of the many attractions I find when following railroad tracks through unfamiliar towns is that I often come across old buildings that are forgotten pieces of history.. some not so forgotten such as this place on Firestone in Downey, CA.

I snapped this image on January 10th 2008, which happens to be just over a year after this illegal partial demolition took place (January 7th 2007).

I had recalled reading about the events last year after they had taken place, but until I went following a local train into South Gate I had not realized I was passing the actual building. Strange is that I had been by this location at least 4 other times, and three of them were prior to it being in it's current state. Yet I had never stopped to taken a photo, nor really noticed it.

There are many sites dedicated to this car hop, though most of the ones I came across only paid attention to the Broiler while it was current news, and have provided no further updates on the status of the action taken. I did find one that listed there being a city council meeting about it sometime in early January 2008, and another listing a Ghost Cruise for a few hot rod clubs .

Here is a link to one of the sites that has information and links to what took place and some history.
http://www.roadsidepeek.com/preserv/2002/johniesbroiler/

I think my next time down there chasing the Union Pacific local train I will incorporate the broiler into the grade crossing photo... or at least attempt it.

Los Angeles Transit

Trolling through the warehouse area's of downtown Los Angeles while scouting for railroad action provides a lot of non-railroad photo ops.. as long as you look around.

This is one of the old bridges over the Los Angeles River. Pretty sure it is 6th street.