UP 1983 leads a good sized fleet of passenger cars into Oakland for winter storage on a gloomy Saturday afternoon. Visible through the car shops is the end of the train and a pair of former SP bus... (more)

EMD 7000, 7001, and 7002 are at the Oakland Diesel shop on their tour of the US to show off EMD's latest offering, the SD70M. Here we see EMD 7000 and an Amtrak F40PH inside the historc shop build... (more)

A UP business special heads down 3rd Street in Oakland, almost to it's destination, the old WP yard. These tracks are now long gone, as all of the old WP/UP traffic now runs on the old SP through ... (more)

A fresh repaint into it's old scheme has been applied to CDTX 2051 as it sits in the depot ready to push the 10:05AM San Joaquin down to Bakersfield.

A big ACe and a slightly smaller SD70M rest in the diesel racks as a BART train to the City rolls by overhead.

What is out of place? Well, maybe it's that big ugly Heritage 2 Dash 9? Not sure... The Dash 9 showed up yesterday on Train #713, the other GE (go figure, GE garbage) had mechanical issues and BNS... (more)

One day its a SD40u, the next a big beefy Warbonnet Dash 9. Yeah, I'm talking about the OIG Yard Switcher. BNSF 4714 shoves a long cut of baretables back into the yard.

A straight SD40, ex-ATSF has the yard duties in the Oakland BNSF Yard. The San Francisco Bay Bridge lurks in the background.

AMTK 67 pulls Train #534 out of the Coach Yard and into the depot to board.

Engineer Mark Jones is in charge of Train #529, which originated in Auburn earlier that morning.

The "Lathrop Shuttle" departs W. Oakland Yard with two SD70M's leading 9 cars, this train runs from Lathrop to Oakland, and back.

Four private cars (for the AAPRCO convention in LA) are properly appointed on the rear of Amtrak #11, the Southbound "Coast Starlight" as it rolls down Jack London Square, Steve Willick at the con... (more)

While the firefighters run into Starbucks for coffee, their firetruck stands proud next to the 7,500 foot autotrain rolling down Jack London Square.

An inbound OIG stacker pauses for a quick second before reversing back into the yard.

Union Pacific's eastbound MOARV (Oakland to Roseville Mixed Manifest) rolls out of Oakland yard, into desert yard, and onto RD2 as a big layer of Bay Area fog rolls in during sunset. A mile or two... (more)