SP 2467 is one of 3 surviving SP Pacific-type steam engines, all of which are in California and in various stages of restoration. SP 2467 was restored by the Pacific Locomotive Association in the ... (more)

A rare unpatched GECX ex-SP snoot-nosed tunnel motor leads todays MSJRV. A plane leaving the San Jose airport can bee seen above UPY 615, a GP15-1 "baby tunnel motor."

ATSF 543, a Fairbanks-Morse H12-44TS, was once a switcher for Santa Fe's Dearborn Station in Chicago. Only three of these locomotives were ever made, and this is the only survivor, rusting away on... (more)

A crew member rides on the "porch" of the old SDP40 as the local approaches Warm Springs Yard.

SP 2472 leads a set of three Harriman cars near Brightside on a photographers' special for Labor Day weekend.

SP 2472 prepares to move forward during its break-in run after 5 years of being dormant.

A crusty ex-Southern Pacific F-unit that last served the L&NW awaits its turn for restoration in the Niles Canyon Railway's Brightside Yard.

The crew readies to depart the Sunol depot for another run down the Niles Canyon.

A DPU helps push a manifest as it rolls through Truckee.

Two old Santa Fe switchers, Alco S2 #2381 and Baldwin DS4-4-1000 #2260, are stripped and sit under cover awaiting restoration by the California State Railroad Museum at the old SP Sacramento Shops... (more)

A several-hours-late Coast Starlight departs San Jose. A Cascades F59PHI is trailing, and two lounges are in the consist as one of them is substituting for a Pacific Parlour Car. PV "Montana" is o... (more)

Southern Pacific 2472 gleams in the morning light.

An already dirty UP GEVO 5516 and several other engines run light through the Roseville yard.

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train is being stored on the Vasona Branch in Campbell, Ca. while the circus is in San Jose. This is a section of the train that has been split to avo... (more)

Quincy #2 and Granite Rock #10 (on loan from the California State Railroad Museum) are doubleheaded on this special day at the Niles Canyon Railway and move their train backwards toward Niles.