Sacramento to Sunrise. Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) S700 LRV no. 410 is the lead unit on a Gold Line train seen arriving at 13th Street Station, en-route to Sunrise.

Spaniards in Sacramento. Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) S/200 LRV no. 230 is the lead unit on a two-car Blue Line train seen crossing 13th Street, en-route to Consumes River Colleg... (more)

Splitting the Signals. Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) S700 LRV no. 412 is the seen splitting the signals at 13th St while making a non-revenue move through downtown Sacramento.

Experience Downtown Sacramento. Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) U2A LRV no. 110 is the lead unit on a two-car Blue Line train seen crossing 15th St, en-route to Consumnes River Coll... (more)

Sacramento Streetcar. Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) S700 LRV no. 405 is the lead unit on a two car Gold Line train, seen here arriving at 16th Street Station en-route to Folsom.

Caltrans Cab Car Conversion. Amtrak Non-Powered Control Unit (NPCU) 90218 is seen leading San Joaquin train 702(10) out of Sacramento, passing the Blue Diamond Growers plant on t... (more)

Virginia & Truckee Railroad, a 52-mile railroad in northern Nevada, took delivery of 2-6-0 13, Empire, in February 1873. In 1910, the Carson City shops converted the Empire from woo... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway F7A 347C (ex-ATSF 306C, née-ATSF 39C) and along with F3B 347B (ex-ATSF 307B, née-ATSF 35A) were borrowed from the California State Railroad Museum by the Santa... (more)

Electro-Motive Division Tunnel Motor diesels solved a tricky problem: Locomotives operate in all climates, from scorching desert heat to frigid Canadian winters. An ample supply of fresh air is al... (more)

In 1929, the official Southern Pacific "Sunset" logo, some ten feet in diameter and made entirely out of leaded glass, was placed high up on the westerly end of the big train shed, overl... (more)

Southern Pacific Railroad owned and operated eleven classes of cab forward steam locomotives. Their AC-12 class of simple articulated 4-8-8-2 cab forward steam locomotives was the last class of s... (more)

There is a lot to see at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. But, if you're lucky enough to get into the old Central Pacific/Southern Pacific shops nearby, there is even more to s... (more)

Off display and back in the old Central Pacific Shop complex (much of it built in 1968) where the California State Railroad Museum stores and works on a variety of equipment in their collection, i... (more)

Virginia & Truckee Railroad 4-4-0 18, named Dayton, was built by the Central Pacific Railroad's Sacramento Locomotive Shops in 1873. This locomotive is owned by the Nevada State Railroad M... (more)

Close to the nose of 347C at the California state RR museum in 1998