The Permanente job is turning across Winchester Blvd. and onto the line up to Permanente.

The two GP9's are backing into the SP Cahill St. station in San Jose to couple up to their San Francisco bound commute.

The SP "odd ball" 6462 was a former Cotton Belt locomotive one painted in Daylight colors and numbered 330. It came west in 1960 as 306 and renumbered to 6462. It ha no dynamics of fro... (more)

Top Ten of 2017. With 2017 in the books, here's a look back at my Top 10 favorite shots from the past year.
8. The announcement late in 2016 that Southern Pacific 4-8-4 444... (more)

The 4449 begins its long trip from Portland to New Orleans with the Worlds Fair Express. Train 9 showing in the train number indicator was the number of the southbound (railroad westbound) Shasta... (more)

On a hot afternoon in August 1988, SP 9380 East, a long drag that appears tp have originated in the Pacific Northwest, climbs through the giant s-curve on the approach to tunnel 2. Cut in mid-trai... (more)

An eastbound coal train has just exited the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel. The tunnel was finished in 1928 and is 24 feet high, 18 feet wide, and 6.2 miles long over the continental divide. Th... (more)

Two F-M switchers at College Park in San Jose.

Entering Newhall yard with a string of open auto racks.

Being serviced at the San Jose sand and fuel rack.

Still in black widow paint working Newhall yard

One of the hotter trains on the Shasta Route in the 80s was the CZLAT, which carried paper barged to Portland from a Crown Zellerbach mill in Camas, Washington. Here, a manifest has been put away... (more)

A lumber drag laden with Oregon Douglas Fir curves along Willow Creek on the Siskiyou Line.

In a light rain, SP 9337 West heads into the north siding at Woodford for a meet with an uphill. Until the 1980s, Woodford sported two through sidings, but then SP took out the connection to the m... (more)