The mid week Snow Train has just passed thru Crockett and is now at Eckley Pier with its next stop at Martinez. This year the bulk of the consist are Amfleet cars replacing Horizon equipment
On a very clear and windy Friday morning, AMTK 144 charges East with the first Reno Fun Train of the year, and Mt Tamalpais in the background. The San Joaquin on the left had been sitting there fo... (more)
A WB UP stack train heads west at Pinole on a brisk late Fall day in Northern California.
A BNSF stack train heads for Oakland on UP's Cal-P line at Pinole. Note the Christmas colors of this BNSF power set. HO HO HO!
Southern Pacific heritage unit, UP 1996 leads the northbound IOASE along San Pablo Bay just several minutes before sunset. We got super lucky here, dispatcher was going to hold them at Pinole for ... (more)
SD70M and an SD70ACe lead a Bay bound stack train on a cold winters evening as dusk falls after a afternoon shower
UP stack train heading to the Bay Area at sunset
Amtrak Capitol racing to Sacramento at sunet
The eastbound California Zephyr makes its way along the Carquinez Straight east of Crockett. Nikon D70, 18-70mm.
A patched SP SD40M-2 leads a Roseville to Newark freight through Rodeo, just north of Hercules along the Cal-P. Nikon D70, 18-70mm.
An eastbound stack train passes the public fishing pier at Eckley.
Talk about pretty good timing!!!...Amtrak 's westbound Sacramento-San Jose Cpitol Corridoor meets the eastobound M-NWRV (formerly know as the MSJRV) at track speed along the Shoreline of San Pablo... (more)
Three 645-powered EMDs are in charge of this junk freight at Eckley.
A trainload of Taiwanese coke en route from the Port of Richmond to Geneva, Utah.
A typically diverse lash-up of smaller locomotives power the Warm Springs-Roseville Manifest through Bahia on a late Winter afternoon.