Union Pacific business train with # 949 (EMD E9) on the point are heading westbound out of Phoenix Arizona at MP 8308 (Montezuma?) on an inspection run of the Welton cut off. The line departs the ... (more)

A doll head posing as a switch lamp, Tuscon Arizona, 1988 .Steve Crise Photo Ā© www.scrise.com

Redondo Tower, May 23rd, 2001. The tower was closed on July 9th, 2001@ 07:00, a few short months after this image was made.Steve Crise Photo Ā© www.scrise.com

A Union Pacific crewmember climbs aboard an EMD SD70M # 4039 and gets ready to head out on the uphill grade at Ansel, California on July 5th, 2002. Steve Crise Photo Ā© scrise.com

A pair of Union Switch and Signals Style B semaphores at Coyote Siding (MP14527) near Carrizozo New Mexico, Sept. 11th, 1999. Two weeks after this images was made, the semaphores were take out of ... (more)

A Speno rail grinding vehicle is parked for the evening near the Pasadena Ave Crossing in South Pasadena Calif. in 1989. The Santa Fe gave up its 3rd District line in 1991 to all regular freight s... (more)

5:15 pm, July 21st, 2001 at the former Santa Fe Redondo Junction roundhouse San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society (SBRHS.org) crewmember Wolf Fengler is about to enter the smokebox of the for... (more)

San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society (SBRHS.org) crewmember Tony Neece is photographed inside the tender of the 3751 as he performs one of the dirtiest and most dangerous tasks of steam loco... (more)

ā€œTender Rivetsā€. Williams Arizona, August 21st, 2002. Steve Crise Photo Ā© scrise.com

ā€œHOMEā€ On the return leg of the 2002 Canyon Rails Excursion at Parker, Arizona. August 25th, 2002. Steve Crise Photo Ā© scrise.com

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway steam locomotive engineer (ret.) George Clous studies the line ahead as the 3751 made a service stop in Barstow, Calif on her way home from Sacramento after a... (more)

One of the newer improvement along the route to San Diego is the flyover bridge seen here, spanning the Union Pacific, BNSF tracks and the Los Angeles River. The structure eliminated the diamond c... (more)

San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society member Paul Prine is wiping down Santa Fe 3751 after she received a good scrubbing in preparation for her journey tomorrow to San Diego with the American... (more)

I think that is safe to assume that the engineers that designed this Service and Inspection Facility for Amtrak at their 8th Street Yard in Los Angeles never envisioned that a steam locomotive wou... (more)

San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society (SBRHS.org) steam locomotive 3751 makes her move on to the turntable at Redondo Junction. She is seen here the evening after completing her second trip t... (more)