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 twice weekly Hollister Local has ran around its train as it proceeds to switch industry around Gilroy. Like the Santa Margarita Turn, both Watsonville Junction based train rarely, or no longer... (more)
UP 1096 leads the Gilroy Local out of Gilroy, preparing to work International Paper and head back to Watsonville, after running around their train.
Passing the abandoned beet loader at Sargent with old style beet racks on the drawbar.
Dog's breakfast leading #11 South OF Gilroy at Corporal.
Union Pacific SD70ACe #8571 leads the Milpitas, CA to El Paso, TX Empty Auto Repo (AMPEPR-13) as it rolls through Downtown Gilroy.
Three Caltrains wait at the Gilroy station before heading north to San Francisco.
Three sets of CalTrain equipment waits at the Gilroy station before heading north to San Francisco.
Today's AOASP is led by an interesting UP consist, 7799 the last of UPs ES44AC 2007 order, repainted SD60M and a C41-8W seen here crawling through Gilroy at 10MPH
Making good time, UP 5293 with an Officer's Special in tow, curves into Corporal shortly after meeting the Hollister local in the thriving metropolis of Gilroy.
A rare sight indeed, yes that is a P42 behind 8683 because it is leading the Starlight due to problems with the lead locomotive at San Jose
510 leads #11 through downtown Gilroy on thanksgiving
The Gilroy local does some switching in the Gilroy Industrial Park in the late afternoon
Kodachrome GP9 3778 was working the beet loading station at Sargent, just South of Gilroy, in the Fall of 1989. The geep still wears the so called "Kodachrome" paint scheme of the aborted Southern... (more)
with UP 5699.