Emerging from the tunnel at Bridge Bay on Lake Shasta, 4449 will duck into one more tunnel then head out onto the double deck Pit River Bridge which carries both highway traffic on the upper deck,... (more)

About to duck into the East Portal of the MUNI's Twin Peaks Tunnel, PCC 1149 is in L-Taravel service. Soon all this track and the tunnel entrance will be demolised for BARTD construction

Being readied for a trip East to Chama, Rio Grande K-37 #492 is on the turntable in front of the Durango Roundhouse. This roundhouse was later destroyed by fire and #492 awaits restoration by the ... (more)

Inbound 23 line car passing the Reading Terminal building seen in the right of the photo. While it has not operated in about 15 years, the 23 is still considered an active streetcar line. Despite ... (more)

SP's Cascade is making its station stop in Berkeley in April of 1971, just days before Amtrak would take over the service. It's next stop would be at Oakland's 16th St. station and the end of the ... (more)

With the air temp hovering around 10 degrees above zero, SP #8942 is leading 5 ex-UP E-units thru the former ice and beer making town of Boca, California. Until I scanned this slide, I had never n... (more)

December of 1971, during Amtrak's first Winter, FP7 #6446 leads the San Francisco Zephyr out of the summit tunnel and protecting snow shed. This section of the original Central Pacific line was re... (more)

Amtral 111, Westbound with the Reno Fun Train at Norden. This would turn out to be the last all F-unit train to cross Donner Pass

SP Train Master #4803 arriving at Santa Clara, Sept. 1964 with one "gallery" car and a Harriman style RPO. Train 153 was an all stops train to San Francisco and the slowest train on the Peninsula... (more)

SP #3197 was one of a group of three GP40P-2's purchased by the SP in the mid-70's and the last passenger power the road would aquire. The locomotive was one of three SP units to wear a special p... (more)

Special round trip LA to Bakersfield & return

Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr is East of Colfax crossing Long Ravine Trestle. #8982 had been added at Roseville for the run over Donner Pass and the hose carrying the air signal line can be seen o... (more)

On the way to San Diego, skirting the ocean at Del Mar

Sierra 2-8-2 #34 and 2-8-0 #28 Westbound out of Chinese Camp

It is June of 1967 and the air temperature is 115 degrees as Magma Arizona #5 goes about switching the yards in Superior, Arizona, getting ready for a run down to Magma Junction. Although #5 was f... (more)