Amtrak's eastbound train #6, the San Francisco Zephyr, rolls across the Sacramento River drawbridge and into the old Southern Pacific passenger station on July 6th, 1976. Powered by SDP40F... (more)

And he carries the reminders of ev'ry glove that laid him down ... But the fighter still remains. Built in January 1950 as part of Western Pacific F7 A-B-B-A set 921. By September 3rd, 19... (more)

ATSF 347C, a Warbonnet-painted EMD F7A, sits inside the California State Railroad Museum's old Sacramento Southern Depot during Amtrak Train Days 2015.

It's a Steam Meets Diesel moment as Granite Rock Co #10 meets Amtrak EMD F40PH #406 in Phase III Colors heading to pick up a diesel engine that you can see sitting on the turntable and to go to be... (more)

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On a warm afternoon Granite Rock 10 is running around its train on the Sacramento Southern Excursion Railroad.

SP’s German K-M hydraulic 9002 basks in the sun at Sacramento, Calif. but don’t be deceived in thinking the K-M’s had 4-wheel trucks. A low tie-rod or truck component creates a shadow that ... (more)

Brand new ACS-64 AMTK 643, sits on display in the roundhouse area of the California State Railroad Museum

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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Ry EMD F7A #347C sits inside the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, CA.

Granite Rock Co #10 Returns Steam to the California State Railroad Museum for the first time in 4 years due to a major repair project that took that amount of time due to firebox problems. We see ... (more)

Was this a forerunner of things to come, when the D&RGW acquired the Southern Pacific in 1988? Participating in the low-speed (and low gear) wheel lift tests at Sacramento in March 1964 were th... (more)

At one end of SP’s test train at Sacramento Shops to monitor wheel lift were 3 Krauss-Maffei hydros and at the other end were two that had been acquired from dissatisfied customer D&RGW. The l... (more)

SP was experiencing wheel lift of 90-ft. piggyback flat cars on curves in early 1964, so they placed cameras under one of them, coupled to fully-loaded ballast cars, to watch during tests at their... (more)

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