Panning wide angle shot of NS 9146 on the point of an overpowered (4 4000 hp units) 10 car manifest, on the fill across the Bay.

Displaced Amtrak Cascades unit on the point of the southbound Coast Starlight, crossing the Alviso Sloughs.

12mm low angle shot of ACE train #3 crossing off of the Alviso Slough levee as it races south towards San Jose.

CalTrain 917 pulls train 436 south through Brisbane on some of the nicest track in the Bay Area. The Bayshore neighborhood of San Francisco forms the backdrop on this beautiful February afternoon.

An unusual EB train at 12:56 in the afternoon, as the Altamont Express trains usually only run in the morning and evening. I could only speculate what this was doing at this time with a CalTrain... (more)

UP autorack train winding through the S curve at the Casa Loma grade crossing in the early evening sunlight.

UP 5728 seeing the light of day after nearly 2 miles of darkness. The shed at East Norden covers the switch at the entrance to the 10,325' Tunnel 41.

UP 5728 crossing over I-80 on the Long Ravine bridge northeast of Colfax.

Continuing West, UP 5728 is just about to pass into the viaduct that will take it under I-80 and back onto the double track at Emigrant Gap.

My shot of the weekend, UP 5728 and 7527 along with a leased SD40-2 wind their autorack train out of Tunnel 35 and down the single track grade at Yuba Pass.

UP Dash 8 9556 leading loaded auto racks from the Bay Area to the Heartland. This train is heading up and over Donner Pass, just about to enter Tunnel 35 on the single track.

Amtrak train #5, the westbound section of the California Zephyr, cruising along the Truckee River just east of Truckee. This train was running several hours late, and given the amount of traffic ... (more)

Low angle shot of eastbound UP 5758 idling in the siding at Gold Run. This unit was leading a new SD70ACe, an SD70M, BN Dash 9 and another UP AC4400CW-CTE, and that is just the power on the front... (more)

Double delight, new AC4500CW-CTE 5492 leading new SD70ACe 8367 along with SD70M 4583 on a westbound stack train around the large horseshoe just west of James Siding.

Double delight, new AC4500CW-CTE 5492 leading new SD70ACe 8367 along with SD70M 4583 on a westbound stack train down grade into Oroville.