Rolling toward the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, a Sierra Railroad train crosses Cooperstown Road.

Relettered for a public relations tour, SP 4449 heads west on Willamette & Pacific's West Side District.

After one more double over, today's Sierra train to Standard will be ready to depart Oakdale.

During an August evening, Sierra 2 takes a spin on the Jamestown turntable.

In 1993, Central California was the place to go if you wanted to see Baldwin diesels at work. In addition to Amador Central, Sierra Railroad continued to get service out of elderly S-12 locomotiv... (more)

A long, hot day on the Sierra Railroad begins before sunrise in Oakdale.

A train of empties for the mill at Standard begins the climb into the Sierra Nevada foothills.

A Sierra Railway passenger excursion rolls westward on a summer afternoon. The train is just out of Jamestown, crossing Bell Mooney Road.

A train of empties roars through Sonora on a hot summer morning. With Baldwin locomotives and a dependency on the timber industry, the Sierra Railroad was a quasi-Northwest shortline in Central Ca... (more)

A Pickering Lumber locomotive switches a caboose at Standard. This image was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

The Shasta Daylight is burning up the Cal P near Elmira on a hot summer day in 1956. This image was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

Pickering Lumber Company's three-truck Heisler number 2 reposes in the deadline at the Standard mill. Today, this locomotive is part of the collection at Travel Town in Los Angeles. This image w... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific piggyback train passes Redwood Jct. Tower sometime in the 1950s. This image on SP's San Francisco Subdivision was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

Imagine it's 1960. The Southern Pacific narrow gauge is on its last legs, so you decide to go photograph it on Washington's birthday. You're going to drive to the Owens Valley and chase the train ... (more)

An excursion on Southern Pacific's Owens Valley narrow gauge line departs Laws on a fall afternoon in 1955. Today, SP locomotive 9 is on display at the Laws Railroad Museum. This image was recorde... (more)