SP #7302, an ALCO RS32, rests at SP's San Jose roudhouse. Coupled to it is ALCO C628 #4845 and one track over is F7 #6245 still in the Black Widow paint scheme

Easing into town is another of the few commuter trains trains in the "good" old days. A friend of mine told me the trainboard now shows around 78 on a weekday from three carriers. Amazing.

Valley Transit Authority. A rare case where the Light Rail was in before the freeway. See comments below about date.

Eastbound inbound, filthy locomotive.

Where is the "Wash Me" graffiti?

A Fairbanks Morse Trainmaster is seen at College Park station in commuter service between San Francisco and San Jose

A FM switcher pauses at College Park station.

I have to admit it. I'm a sucker for a torpedo boat, well really, for most of the non-standard units. This one has just finished it's commuter run, had the last two number of the train removed f... (more)

Having just finished its commuter run from San Francisco, this unit has dropped the last two digits of the train number and is heading back to the roundhouse.

Sporting arguably the best looking Bicentennial scheme this great unit is about to terminate the southbound run of commuter train #126.

Rare version (on SP) of a very fine EMD model. I wonder if they ever got out of California in their thirty odd years.

Rare version (on SP) of a very fine EMD model. I wonder if they ever got out of California in their thirty odd years. Sometime during the day they turned it so here's the other side.

This was a great place to catch the commuter rush.