The famous "Milpitas Fs" along with a friend challenge Altamont again with their auto racks headed for the Ford plant. As seen from the drivers seat of the "mustard jar", my 1976 Datsun.

The famous "Milpitas Fs" along with a friend challenge Altamont again with their auto racks headed for the Ford plant.

Howling EB? freight is departing in style. That's my old pal TC Caughman sitting on the "mustard jar", my 1976 Datsun, just taking it all in.

Nice orange yard switcher with my favorite spark arresters is wide open and looking good. The tower area was a great place and a needed respite from railfanning in Roseville most of the time.

I was scanning my collection of WP slides and happened on my very favorite rain shot so here it is. This is a westbound freight and the weather outside is frightful.

Switching in the yard

A hint of what's to come in the middle...

Having cut off of its train it had just brought down the Highline, F7A #913-A is passing thru the tunnel which is on the leg of the Keddie Wye. It is heading to the Keddie Yards.

Yellow cones indicate car loading locations

#3021 has just gotten a clear signal after being in the hole for a Westbound freight at Spring Garden and is now heading East.

Eastbound between Pleasanton and Livermore, WP F7 914A with two "B" units is leading a pig train into the early morning sun in July 0f 1966

The Eastbound California Zephyr has emerged from the tunnel at Keddie and out onto Spanish Fork Trestle. FP7 805A is leading with an F3B and F3A in the lash-up. A steam generator car and a Great ... (more)

While on a business trip my father Robert Hedlund took this photo as he waited the trains arrival. Power WP FP7 804-D & two F3Bs.

A 1959 GP20 (the world's 2nd and one of ten the WP rostered) sits among 1978 Ford Pickups and Thunderbirds in Speed Yard. This was a utility yard for making quick moves either into Ford, or for th... (more)