This is the second time I have caught Amtrak 131 on the point of the southbound Coast Starlight. My co-worker boarded the train at the San Jose station, so I figured I'd get a picture of her first... (more)

The engineers side of the CDTX 8306 cabcar, named "Mount Soledad". In this photo, you don't get a feeling of how cool this cabcar is... It's the only one on Amtrak California's roster with a Natha... (more)

Making its next to last station stop before San Francisco, SP's Coast Daylight is on track #5 at Cahill St. Station in San Jose Just over a month remains before Amtrak will take over this route. O... (more)

Celebrating ACE's 10 year anniversary, ACE 3101 has been wrapped up and is seen pushing ACE #2 out of San Jose, bound for Stockton.

A signal at the south end of Caltrain's Tamien Station waits to turn green for a Southbound to head to Gilroy for the evening commute.

A Capitol Corridor train with a Superliner in its consist lays over in the yard at San Jose Station along with CalTrain equipment.

Southbound #426 slows for the MoW crew at College Park in San Jose. CalTrain is a joint operation with Amtrak. The MoW equipment is mostly Amtrak. The ballast cars belong to the Peninsula Joint Po... (more)

Still blue flagged, SP Train Master #3020 is getting ready to head to The City with commute train #139. The second gallery car still wears its as delivered 1955 paint scheme. Six years later, #302... (more)

Westbound Amtrak Capitol Corridor glides along the berms approaching Alviso bound for San Jose, Ca.

The Southern Pacific had been trying to abandon the "Lark" for sometime, but in March of 1967 they had not yet succeeded. Still carrying an RPO, the train is being worked at San Jose. A little ove... (more)

SP "Train Master" #3025 is arriving at Cahill St. Station in June of 1972 with rush hour commute #142. The large natural gas storage tank would, years later, give way to San Jose's Ice Arena, H-P ... (more)

The SP's sixteen Fairbanks-Morse "Train Masters" brought an end to steam power on the SP Peninsula commute in January of 1957. Still going strong in May of 1972, #3025 races North with late aftern... (more)

The southbound Coast Starlight, which was making good time that morning, rounds the curve just south of the Curtner Ave. overpass in South San Jose.

Following close on the tail of the number 5 ACE train, a UP manifest is climbing the rise to the short bridge over the Guadalupe River in San Jose's Alviso neighborhood.

Amtrak train 523 races across the salt marshes of the Alviso neighborhood of San Jose.