Centennial No. 6905 leads a hot eastbound pig train at Martinez Spur.

Ex-BN power sits in the tight engine facility outside the ex-BN 32nd St. roundhouse.

Eight brand-new ACEs, plus a GEVO, lead coal empties westward through Wataga on their maiden voyage to the PRB.

In Jun of 1972, EMD locomotive test car ET 800 sits near the engine facility in SP's Roseville Yard. The test car was involved in work EMD did for SP in developing the tunnel motor design and othe... (more)

Centennial 6927 leads an Overland Mail East out of a tunnel just east of Keddie Wye.

The Worlds Fair Daylight heads across the Tehachapi Valley on its way to New Orleans, LA. All three of SP's "Daylight" painted locomotives are on the point of this special passenger train that ori... (more)

WP F7As 918D and 917D sit next to the roundhouse at Stockton.

Early in the morning, an eastbound SP manifest roars out of tunnel 10 with the ground covered in varying shades of springtime grass.

High-hood GP20 No. 2007 idles in the late afternoon sun on the ready track.

On a hazy day in October 1977, a Santa Fe eastbound roars slowly upgrade at Woodford with an SP and Santa Fe manifest in the hole in the long siding. A U-boat in 5936's consist is sending a plume ... (more)

New SD40T-2 No. 8300 leads a westbound string of boxcars at Woodford, CA. These units were very impressive when they were first delivered, and all worked Tehachapi. Truly these locomotives were on... (more)

Amtrak No. 6 prepares to depart 16th Street Station in Oakland.

A BNSF track inspection car tilts automatically to the outside of a curve and it heads into a siding on the Lampasas Sub. BNSF's Temple locomotive shops are at right.

Centennial 6940 leads a westbound merchandise train through a curve at Martinez.

One of the heaviest classes of six-axle locomotives on the Southern Pacific, a GE U30C with factory-added ballast to increase its pulling power leads a downhill freight at Woodford.