Westbound on the original Central Pacific right of way, Amtrak #341 is leading the Zephyr over what has become known as "Streamliner Curve" the location of the stranded City of SF in 1952. The tra... (more)

It was supposed to be the last night of streetcar as well as PCC service on San Francisco's Market St. #1160 is outbound at First. St. It turned out not to be the end and today the Market St surfa... (more)

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 "Last Run of a PA" Excursion is on its way back to Richmond from Stockton and has stopped at Port Chicago for a photo run. Trailing unit #58 has quit, resulting in some very ALCO-like smoke fr... (more)

The end of the SP was just a few days away as SD40M #8645 led a Westbound freight at Boca. #8645 and the unit directly behind it were actually the Truckee Helper having been added to the train out... (more)

Santa Fe PA #58 (along with #67) is resting on the service track at Richmond after pulling the "Last Run of a PA" excursion to Stockton and return. Forty years later, with the exception of the tur... (more)

Exiting Tunnel #10 at Walong, SP SD40T2 is at the Eastern end of the siding.

McCloud Railway #37 is on the way to Burney, CA, with what would be the last group of empties for the Sierra Pacific Mill. The following Friday would see the last revenue freight cross this part o... (more)

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)

Heading out Pine St. in Yakima, #298 is on its way to Nob Hill and Congdon Orchards. The track to Selah diverges here heading out 6th St.

Today it is #2330, a PCC-II serving on the rebuilt #15 Girard but in August of 1980 it was just another PCC, built in 1947, numbered #2730 and working the #56 Erie Ave line, heading to 23rd and Ve... (more)

Harlowton, MT, was the Eastern end of the Milwaukee's Montana Electrification. E57B was working the yard on a hot August afternoon in 1971. Today, this is a barren right of way.

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)