UP 6839 leads a slot train full of riprap bound for the Elkhorn Slough, where tracks regularly flood at high tide

A 2-hour late Coast Starlight blasts through Masten Ave as the sun peaks through the clouds.

An empty intermodal move from Lathrop to stuff sidings in San Ardo and McKay.

A rarity in 2025... a Dash 8 leads the southbound Coast Starlight through fruit orchards and garlic fields at the ex-SP location of Carnadero, just south of Gilroy. This is where the Hollister Bra... (more)

BNSF 7161 leads the southbound Coast Starlight through Gilroy after an equipment failure the previous day in Seattle. The southernmost Caltrain terminal, still served by diesels to and from San Jo... (more)

CFNR 501 holds on the main of the ex-SP West Side Line, next to the Westley water tank which dates back to the 1880’s.

The Salinas Hauler drops off two boxcars at International Paper in Gilroy--the last rail-served customer in town.

UP 8811 leads a large manifest train west over a snowy Donner Pass on a 60 degree spring-like day.

With all the torrential rain California has received in the last two weeks, the Coast route was shut down due to bridge damage and other issues around Honda (near Vandenberg SFB). Lucky for us, th... (more)

The MOAOA caught between the "Golf Course" (commonly used as a waypoint for train crews) and some geese along the north end of the UP Warm Springs Sub.

UP 1111 leads a special Northbound on the UP Coast Sub through Elkhorn Slough.

AMTK 822 (Phase III Heritage Unit) on the point of the Westbound California Zephyr arriving in Roseville, CA.

The meeting of the Coast Starlights at San Luis Obispo.

A foreign leader on the UP Coast Sub! BNSF 3932, a Tier 4 GEVO, leads an empty UP autorack train south from Milpitas, CA to El Paso, TX. The Calpine Metcalf Energy Center can be seen off to the le... (more)

The OSTBA-22, coke empties from the Port of Stockton, CA to Bromela, CA on the Coast Sub, entering the cut through Communications Hill just south of Downtown San Jose. UP 6379, a patched SP AC4400... (more)