Inbound 23 line car passing the Reading Terminal building seen in the right of the photo. While it has not operated in about 15 years, the 23 is still considered an active streetcar line. Despite ... (more)

The locomotives have just crossed the site of the Secret Town Trestle built by the Central Pacific and later filled. It is my understanding the trestle is still there, buried in the fill material.

Now double heading for the run back to Jamestown, #8 and #3 start the uphill climb out of Cooperstown.

Sierra's famed Rogers 4-6-0 #3 is between Cooperstown and Warnerville. It had double-headed with #8 and was now running to Warnerville for water. The yellow car is the restored "Julia Bulette" fro... (more)

Former Dardanelle & Russelville #8, by now owned by Shortline Enterprises, operated an excursion in the fall of 1979 which also included double-heading with Sierra #3. Seen here leaving Warnervil... (more)

The big SDP40F's were new and just coming online as #587 climbs out of Coldstream Canyon at Andover above Donner Lake. Cold Sream Canyon was the route of the successful Stevens-Townsend-Murphy par... (more)

Returning from a round trip excursion from San Jose to Watsonville, SP 2472 and SP 4449 are passing thru College Park on the way to Newhall Yard where they were kept during the 1992 NRHS Conventio... (more)

Sacramento Northern #654 is on its way into Yuba City via the trackage on Bridge Street after crossing over from Marysville on the other side of the Feather River. This was the last segment still ... (more)

A Pacific Rail Society special of February 1973, already running late, had the SD45 added at Roseville for the run over Donner Pass. Nearing sunset, the train is passing thru Yuba Gap.

For a time, although the SDP's were equipped with icicle breakers and plows, SP still required Amtrak to use one of the FP7's aquired from the railroad during bad weather. Seen here leading, forme... (more)

The Westbound San Francisco Zephyr (as it was then known) has an SP SD40 added due to adverse weather on the Donner Pass. Seen just after passing thru Dutch Flat, one of SP's home built dome cars ... (more)

It had been 17 years since an operating steam locomotivce had crossed Donner Pass as the AFT 4449 headed East to meet the rest of the Freedom Train in JUne of 1975. Seen at Yuba Gap on the #2 main... (more)

Before the FRED, there was the CABOOSE. SP SD45T2 9213 is pushing thru Emigrant Gap in March of 1986. It was SP practice to place a single helper behind the caboose and two or more were placed ahe... (more)

The Sword of Damocles had fallen on the SP a month before but few outward changes were visible as Rio Grande Tunnel Motor #5365 races Eastward thru the community of Lockwood, just East of Sparks. ... (more)

Eastbound on what was then the #2 Track (UP changed it to #1) #7561 is passing thru the former lumber town of Floriston.