The Coast Starlight is receiving passengers at Emeryville on a summer morning. In the distance, Capitol train 721 is waiting for the Starlight to clear the platform, so it can enter the station.

The westbound California Zephyr. A Roger Puta Photograph

BNSF ES44C4 #8085 leads the Alliance, TX to Oakland Intermodal Gateway, CA Stack Train (S-ALTOIG1 04A) through Emeryville.

Power for an eastbound empty coal train heads through the Amtrak Emeryville station on a gorgeous weekday afternoon in the Bay Area.

Southbound Coast Starlight arrives at Emeryville.

A westbound Capitol Corridor train arrives in Emeryville in the early evening.

To commemorate 150 years since the Chinese railroad workers helped build the transcontinental railroad, Union Pacific ran a special passenger train from Oakland to Reno over the very pass that th... (more)

Union Pacific's UEOEY9-10 ethanol train rolls through Emeryville led by SD70Ms #3784 and #4321 with Norfolk Southern C40-8W #8457 sandwiched in between. NS 8457 is an ex-Conrail unit.

Looking good with the older AmCal logo, F59 2003 leads Capitol Corridor train 541 into the station at Emeryville.

Presumably headed to the port of Oakland, a UP stack train cruises past the Amtrak station at Emeryville.

A UP switcher holds for Capitol Corridor train 537 to clear before making a crossover move.

Passengers off of the California Zephyr head into the station at the end of the line.

With the sun in the perfect place, a UP ethanol throttles out of Emeryville under the RV006 signal bridge, which frames the train rather nicely.

This BNSF double-stack train passes the Emeryville Amtrak station en route to Oakland.