Hood type KM diesel hydraulic coupled to F7A #6401. Everything in this photo, including the natural gas storage tank is gone and the new CalTrain facility occupies this site.

Westbounf freight on the now removed #1 westward main. The track was removed to provide material to expand capacity on the Sunset line during the early 1990's.

The Super Chief arriving at LAUPT -- Amtrak will arrive in a few weeks

Photo taken East of Martinez, close to where highway 4 is now located, the train will soon enter Franklin Canyon. Note the blade semaphore dropping as the train passed. The area is unrecognizable... (more)

The signs are wrong---they are actually on the "N" line, but it is an excursion marking the last day of PCC service in San Francisco---or so we thought.

Deadhead move to take 4449 to Sandpoint, ID, for Montana Steam II

Engineer Bob Sharrah is taking it slow across the McCloud Railway's Lake Britton Bridge. The three loads and two bad order empties make up the next to the last revenue train on the East end of the... (more)

The dorm car and the last coach are still Santa Fe hi-levels

The SP was down to its last week of existence as four tunnel motors, three Rio Grande and one SP, climb toward Cape Horn

Under the Ed Moyers regime, SP purchased new four axle road power and it often turned up on Donner Pass, long the bastion of the six axle SD's

On display along with Amtrak F40 245, SP #3187 is wearing the colors suggested by the head of CalTrans, Adrianna Gianturco. The state was just taking over the commute operation although SP would o... (more)

Passing the site of the now gone Palisade depot and the connection with the long gone narrow gauge Eureka & Palisade

An Eastbound freight on the Eastward main track #2 almost to Soda Springs and close to the top at Norden. Three SD45's and one SD45T2 in the lashup.

Westbound manifest at the first crossing of the Truckee River out of Reno. Four different locomotives DRGW 3084 GP40;SP 7564 SD45; SSW 7788 B30-7;SP 8377 SD40T2. Four axle units were never common ... (more)

Emerging from the Eastern end of Niles Canyon, WP 2001 is taking the curve into the town of Sunol. This locomotive has been preserved at the WP museum in Portola, CA.