On a warm April evening in the San Francisco Bay Area, RPRC 1268 leaves the water behind, and a massive unloading crane too.
Brand new Dash 8 507 rests next to FP45 91 in Richmond after leading the 199 train earlier.
SD70ACe BNSF 9343 crosses Harbour Way, with Engineer Joey Lopez heavy on the K5LLA, warning the blue VW Jetta to stop and stay in the clear.
Sporting its fresh H3 Swoosh paint job, BNSF 1574 and her SD45-2 carbody cross Harbour Way in the industrial district of Richmond, leading a monster sized Warm Springs Local.
Engineer Joey Lopez hangs his arm out the window of his rare SD70ACe leader, as he, his two locomotives and 5600 feet of baretables grind up Stege and onto the RicPac's Siberia Lead.
BNSF 9343 splits Richmond in two, while rolling up the Siberia Lead, heading to BNSF's Richmond Yard.
With slightly over a dozen miles until journey's end, UP 844 and her entourage hustles through a tall grove of Eucalyptus trees near the edge of San Pablo Bay on the final lap into Oakland CA.
An overhead view of the diesel racks in Richmond. As you can tell, you don't get a big variety of power, it's either a SD40-2, a hybrid thingy, or a Dash 9. Yay.
A slick BNSF 1574 crosses Harbor Way in Richmond, which is only protected by two mere crossbucks.
A westbound BNSF OIG train trundles along the joint BNSF/Richmond Pacific trackage, on it's way to the UP interchange at Stege. Once on the UP, it's just a few miles to the trains final destinatio... (more)
The view from Pt Richmond looking over the BNSF Richmond Yard.
Richmond Pacific's yellow switcher sits in the street. Cool number too, 4449.
Santa Fe PA #58 (along with #67) is resting on the service track at Richmond after pulling the "Last Run of a PA" excursion to Stockton and return. Forty years later, with the exception of the tur... (more)
