Train #98 the Coast Daylight at San Jose

On the way to the cement plant.

Special round trip LA to Bakersfield & return

Climbing Cima Hill East of Kelso, four hours off their schedule

Northbound thru San Clemente

The westbound San Francisco Chief passing an excursion train at Holt, CA, in the San Joaquin Delta. The excursion was marking the last run of an ALCO PA. The special had taken the siding as #310 ... (more)

Photo special with #2472 on the Niles Canyon Railway. This photo run was just East of Farwell on the former SP mainline.

Passing a freight at Spring Garden

Approaching the one time SP water stop at Humboldt, Nevada

Time was running out for the last Santa Fe passenger train operating in Northern California as ATSF #301 leads the San Francisco Chief on the last leg of its journey thru Hercules and on to Richmo... (more)

Pacific Locomotive Association's Oakland to Truckee "Truckee Limited", the last excursion operated by the SP prior to Amtrak.

For whatever reason, now lost memory, SP SD45 #9074 is sitting on the house track by the Truckee Freight House in November of 1988. The one door left hanging open suggests the unit failed and was ... (more)

Rio Grande F9 #5771 is heading West with the Rio Grande Zephyr, the remnant of the California Zephyr. As the Grande didn't join Amtrak, they were required to keep this train running. I lasted unti... (more)

SP #6460, trailing an SDP45, is arriving at San Jose's Cahill St. Station with the Coast Daylight. It is February of 1971 and Amtrak will soon appear. #6460 was never "conveyed" to Amtrak as it wa... (more)

In 1968, a very successful "Last Run of a PA" was operated by Pacific Locomotive Association from Richmond to Stockton. The following year, as ATSF still had stored PA's in Barstow they decided to... (more)