With a new, shiny SD75M on the point, an eastbound intermodal train in the hole at Knightsen meets an opposing manifest at dusk.
Santa Fe, UPS and a crane company team up to get damaged UPS trailers stuffed with packages off the ground after a 991 train derailed several loads. Reported cause was a rail that simply turned on... (more)
An eastbound San Joaquin rips through Knightsen at 79 mph with a UP Pittsburg Local waiting in the siding.
A BNSF vehicle train flies west towards Richmond on the Stockton Sub on a warm February afternoon
After an Amtrak San Joaquin flashes by at the east end of Knightsen, a Santa Fe freight behind Super Fleet power roars out of the siding and continues its trip across the San Joaquin Delta.
With a reddish light from a school yard providing backgound illumination through the pea soup fog, the ABS signal at the west end of Knighsen glows red as an eastbound approaches, and shoots its b... (more)
A SD40-2 streaks past the east signal at Knighsen as its westbound roars across the San Joaquin Delta.
A track gang cuts CWR at a grade crossing as part of a project to install a second main track between Orwood and Oakley.
A westbound Amtrak San Joaquin roars past the east switch at Knightsen at better than 70 mph.
Brand new BNSF SD75M 8269 is on it's first run, having come west the day before, and now heading back east on the Stockton Sub, in northern California. An invite into the cab revealed that new car... (more)
Santa Fe 524 East heads into the siding at Knightsen for a meet with a hot 199 train.
A 943 train passes through walnut orchards on a beautiful spring morning at Knightsen.
162 West passes signals that await the installation of a second main track before being put into service.
Brand-new SD75M 237 idles at the east end of Knightsen siding waiting for two westbounds to clear before it proceeds to Stockton.
An Amtrak San Joaquin headed for Bakersfield passes a Santa Fe 943 train in Knightsen siding doing 70 mph.