SP's Santa Cruz local, lead by GP9 3841 has stopped next to the Boardwalk while the crew goes to get some food. The Boardwalk security guards are less than pleased at the presence of the train.

CalTrain was still twelve years in the future as SP Train Master #3032 pulls into Santa Clara with mid-afternoon train #116. The first gallery car still wears its original Lark gray with white st... (more)

Working East out of Durango, #492 (K-37) and #484 (K36) are passing thru Bayfield. The crew has found #492 does not have enough sand and the fireman is on top of the boiler pushing what little he ... (more)

After taking part in the 50th anniversay celebration for Los Angeles Union Station, 4449 pulled a special out of Oakland to Sacramento. Most rail facilities in this photo are now gone as the repla... (more)

Heading South (SP West), the #4449 has the entire American Freedom Train in tow as it heads down the Sacramento River Canyon at Soda Creek Rd. Behind the #4449 is SP' Bicentennial unit SD45T2 #938... (more)

About half way to Magma Junction, the #5 made a stop for water at what was known as Desert Tank. The temperature was still hovering around 115 degrees.

Visible in this photo is the end the Milwaukee blinded, first on the two passenger Joe's then later to all of them.

WP freight slows as it passes Sacramento Northern 654 in the Marysville yards. The trackage around Marysville and Yuba City was the last vestige of SN's extensive network still under wire,

SP 226 has just reached the top of Tennessee Pass and will enter the tunnel under the pass itself. It would just be a matter of weeks before new owner UP would embargo the line.

On the way home to Portland, SP 4449 is crossing the large bridge over the Sacramento River in Redding, CA with the Amtrak/4449 cross country excursion. It is Friday, April 29, 1977 and on Sunday,... (more)

Arriving in Madras on the way to Bend, OR. This trip marked the return of the 4449 to Freedom Train colors due to Sept. 11, 2001. The auxiliary tender is in black and lettered "Let's Roll" in hono... (more)

Rio Grande #483 has just left Durango and is heading down the branch to Farmington, New Mexico, with loads of drilling mud and pipe. In a little over a year the branch will be abandoned and remove... (more)

The Southern Pacific had been trying to abandon the "Lark" for sometime, but in March of 1967 they had not yet succeeded. Still carrying an RPO, the train is being worked at San Jose. A little ove... (more)

Shorn of its Northern Pacific monad but still in NP green, #9814 is making its stop at Pasco, WA, with the North Coast Limited, now a BN train

Racing alongside Stanley Blvd. just outside of Livermore with a steam generator car directly behind the locomotives. The now abandoned SP line thru Niles Canyon to the West and Altamont to the Eas... (more)