Amtrak #551 leads the way into San Jose as the Coast Starlight passes thru the now abandoned Newhall Yard. The white building on the left has given way to condos.
SP #2380, a Fairbanks-Morse product, is getting ready to pull the lead unit off of Train #126 leaving just #3004 to take three lightweight cars to Monterey as the Del Monte, running long hood forw... (more)
A solid set of T&NO f-units, upgraded by the railroad to F9's entering Newhall Yard, passing under what was then Highway 17, now I-880. No data on the pigeons.
Stopped at SP's Cahill St. depot in San Jose, SP #6456, along with #3009, is ready to take train #98, the Coast Daylight, to Los Angeles. Part of the consist is made up of Sunset equipment being d... (more)
Double headed and racing thru the cut behind Oak Hill, CDTX 918 is leading a special train to Gilroy as part of that years Garlic Festival. Today the cut has been widened and it is double track.
A Autorack train bound for Texas rolls through the south end of the San Francisco Bay.
A deadhead Amtrak move brings the equipment for the Reno Fun Train through San Jose on its way to LA.
By January of 1970, the Coast Daylight was but a shadow of its former self as FP7 #6456 rolls the train into San Jose passing Stockton St. and College Park. The Daylight had the distinction of bei... (more)
SP SDP45 #3204 Leads Train #98, the "Coast Daylight" South (SP East) thru the cut behind Oak Hill in South San Jose. Some of the coaches are deadheading "Sunset" cars sent to San Francisco for ser... (more)
with UP 5412/5360/3319/3627. A United 737 approaching SJC is visible in the background.
With Amtrak 173.
An one-headed Coast Starlight! Shortly after departing Oakland, one of the P42s died and the crew had to set out the disabled engine near Elmhurst. The train continued its trip south with just o... (more)
