The #5 ACE train is running around 15 minutes late on it's trip from Stockton to San Jose, undoubtedly resulting in some unhappy commuters.

On my 18th birthday, UP 5423 South leads a Roseville to Montclair, CA Quality manifes train through San Jose.

SP "Torpedo Boat" GP9 #3005 is passing thru Newhall Yard in San Jose on its way to San Francisco. The first two cars still wear the gray paint and white stripe. #3005 later became #3189 but is now... (more)

A Gilroy-bound Caltrain arrives in the depot, with CalTrain F40PH 908 leading.

SP #6460, trailing an SDP45, is arriving at San Jose's Cahill St. Station with the Coast Daylight. It is February of 1971 and Amtrak will soon appear. #6460 was never "conveyed" to Amtrak as it wa... (more)

ACE08, the last one of the day, boards on #1 Track in the depot.

A roster shot of ACE 3104 in San Jose before pushing ACE06 out of the depot.

The second Eastbound ACE of the day, ACE04 departs San Jose, bound for Stockton with ACE3105 shoving.

On my 18th birthday, UP 5423 South rumbles through San Jose, bound for Montclair, CA.

The QRVMN speeds down the Coast Line on a sunny winter morning.

A shortened Coast Starlight heads south of San Jose toward its next stop of Salinas.

The Bayshore-Wattsonville Peddler is about to cross Stockton Avenue while RP.net contributor Charles Freericks advances the film on an Argus/Cosina STL 1000 (still have it). This BSWJ would later ... (more)

Torpedo boat GP9 3006 goes on the turntable on a fairly typical early 70’s scene at the San Jose roundhouse in August 1972. The car on the right is likely a Firebird Formula 400.

SP commute torpedo boat GP9 3005 in evening light at the power pool in San Jose, CA in February of 1975.