Operational E9 passenger diesellocomotive # 6051 of the Southern Pacific Railroad in the Daylight paint scheme, built in 1954 by EMD in a batch of 9 engins. Allowed the dieselization of the Coast ... (more)

4-6-0 oilfired steamlocomotive # X112 of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, built by ALCO in 1908. # 112 is the lone survivor of the NWP's 98 steam enignes and last operated in may of 1952.

Classic 1500 HP "Santa Fe" F7 # 347C in the beautiful red/silver "Warbonnet" paint scheme, one of the many highlights of this outstanding railroad museum. The locomotive was bu... (more)

The Gov. Stanford on display. The engine was built in 1862 by Norris Locomotive Works. It entered service on November 9, 1863 and it help construct the First Transcontinental Railroad in North Ame... (more)

From Wikipedia "Southern Pacific 4294 was the last steam locomotive ordered new by Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). It was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1944, and was used hauling SP's... (more)

Classic "American" 4-4-0 steamlocomotive # 1 "Governor Stanford" in the outstanding California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. Following text from the museums website: This forty-ton wood-bu... (more)

Classic 1500 HP "Santa Fe" F7 # 347C in the beautiful red/silver "Warbonnet" paint scheme, one of the many highlights of this outstanding railroad museum. The locomotive was bu... (more)

The AC-12 class 4-8-8-2 "cab forward" # 4294 of the Southern Pacific was built in 1944 as the last of a series of 20 locomotives by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The only survivor of its... (more)

Southern Pacific "Daylight" 4-8-4 No. 4449 is on the last leg of its journey from Portland, Ore., to attend Railfair '91 in Sacramento, Calif., as it passes Elvas Tower. The tower would ... (more)

A UP manifest speeds south down the Cal-P past McClellan Park

In the later half of the afternoon, a UP triclops rolls through Johnston with a southbound manifest and a lovely burnt spot on its side.

A SD59MX leads a manifest south on the Cal-P through Sacramento

Sacramento Southern #2030, an EMD SW8, leads the California State Railroad Museum's excursion train on another trip through Sacramento during Union Pacific's 150th Anniversary Celebration.

A clean train is a happy train!

A rare look from inside the operator's cab of a brand new Light Rail Vehicle at the Siemens Manufacturing Plant in Sacramento, CA. This and the cars seen outside the window are going to the Twin C... (more)