It is June of 1967 and the air temperature is 115 degrees as Magma Arizona #5 goes about switching the yards in Superior, Arizona, getting ready for a run down to Magma Junction. Although #5 was f... (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)

Westbound thru Yuba Gap, the Reno Fun Train is led by FP7 #111, formerly SP 6447. EMD F units had passed over Donner Pass for over 25 years, but this would be the last train to be led over the pas... (more)

The Westbound San Francisco Zephyr (as it was then known) has an SP SD40 added due to adverse weather on the Donner Pass. Seen just after passing thru Dutch Flat, one of SP's home built dome cars ... (more)

SP 3789 is crossing Reservation Hill West of Schurz, NV with the Thorn Turn. It is heading down the former Mina Branch to the weapons station at Hawthorn. The section South of Thorn to Mina had be... (more)

Running on the now gone Oregon, Pacific, & Eastern owned by Kyle Railways, Yreka Western #19 (a former McCloud engine) is pulling an excursion train back to Cottage Grove from Dorena. #19 is now b... (more)

A solid set of T&NO f-units, upgraded by the railroad to F9's entering Newhall Yard, passing under what was then Highway 17, now I-880. No data on the pigeons.

The grime from passing thru SP's Donner Pass tunnels is showing on #4449 as it is approaching Soda Springs (just West of Norden) on its way East to meet the rest of the American Freedom Train. Jun... (more)

After display in San Francisco, the 2860 is on its way to San Jose for another display date before going further South in California.

The oldest named train the SP, the Del Monte has passed Sand City and now passing Fort Ord. The daily Monterey to San Francisco train had long been an abandonment target of the SP but the coming ... (more)

Returning to Durango on the Farmington Branch, Rio Grande #483 has stopped for water at Bondad, just across the New Mexico state line.

Crossing the Crooked River Bridge with Mt. Washington on the way North over the Oregon Trunk

It had been over a year since WP's portion of the California Zephyr had stopped running and now WP 805D and several other Zephyr units were now working freight trains. Turning North toward Stockto... (more)

The San Luis & Rio Grande have been advertising a train operating between Alamosa and Antonito to provide a connection with the narrow gauge Cumbres and Toltec. This is that train.

Sierra 4-6-0 #3 and 2-8-0 #28 are making a photo runby on a cold december day in 1993 at Hetch Hetchy Junction, It is here that the Sierra connected with the long gone Hetch Hetchy Railroad, owned... (more)