After a two mile hike and a hour worth of climbing a mountainside, we were finally rewarded with a Westbound exiting Tunnel 42 on a July morning. Donner Lake rests in the background, and behind th... (more)

Storming along on rails she may have possibly ran in revenue service, the 261 passes the station sign for Norwood on her first trip in four years.

Where can you see seven ALCO's these days? Snowflake, AZ on the Apache Railway! A mix of six Alco's prepare to depart Snowflake with 16 cars in tow, while APA 83 sits idle in the yard.

One of the two P32-8BWH's on Amtrak California's roster pushes a Sacramento-bound Capitol Corridor Eastbound, along the San Pablo Bay.

Look! Sisters! BNSF 110 and BNSF 8736, both in the GP60 family, lead the Southbound Warm Springs Local down Jack London Square as seen from the Broadway Street crossing.

Amtrak #535, bound for San Jose pulls into Emeryville and passes a BNSF Yard Job, with a slick Heritage 2 SD60M leading long hood forward.

Steam in s-curves... UP 844 chugs up the 1.0% grade, rounding the S-Curves just East of Livermore.

An extra Day Gas local returns East with a short train of empty tanks, skirting the Clark Fork River.

The MRVSJ rolls through the shoe-fly just East of Livermore on a windy, warm Spring afternoon.

With four inches of Sierra Cement already on the ground, more snow continues to fall while a Westbound stack train prepares to emerge from the ten thousand foot Tunnel 41.

Amtrak 5 rolls out of Tunnel 35 and isn't expecting to find the dozen trespassers behind me, around the blind corner. The train took a 9 minute delay thanks to the folks kicking off New Years earl... (more)

Crossing the Yellowstone at a location known as Twin Bridges, engineer Dave Steel keeps the 318 West and company under control on a breezy and warm Fall afternoon. A few hours later, the 318 would... (more)

A worn out and beat up Warbonnet leads an Eastbound out of Tunnel 6, and past Fall colors in the Columbia River Gorge.

Smashing! An Eastbound stack train exits Tunnel 41, which is known as the "Big Hole", and begins its descent down Donner Pass towards Sparks.

The magic banana crosses the Alameda Creek on a gorgeous Fall afternoon leading a San Jose-bound Capitol.