Nice orange yard switcher with my favorite spark arresters is wide open and looking good. The tower area was a great place and a needed respite from railfanning in Roseville most of the time.
WP subsidiary's unit has come to the end of the line and sits on a radial track at one of the most modern roundhouses in America.
Amtrak #502 is just leaving Stockton with one of the San Joaquins in April of 1993 and is seen passing the now gone Stockton Tower. While lettered for Amtrak, #502 (along with 501) were paid for b... (more)
Just a few months after its merger with Western Pacific, UP power dominates the smaller railroad, as demonstrated here by a consist of armour yellow SD40-2s sliding around a unit grain train on th... (more)
The conductor and rear brakeman appear to be distracted by something to the left of the camera as their "pool" caboose enters the siding with a westbound waiting on the main.
A rare silver-trucked SP SD45R crosses the ATSF at Stockton Tower.
A typical Santa Fe "hack" brings up the rear of an intermodal train just east of the WP crossing at Stockton Tower.
FP45 91 leads a humble 943 train through the diamonds at Stockton Tower.
Santa Fe's Eastbound "San Francisco Chief" is pulling into the Stockton, CA, depot. On the adjacent track is the excursion train that was operated to mark the "Last Run of an ALCO PA". It has al... (more)
An Amtrak San Joaquin has just crossed the SP Valley Line and is slowing for its next stop at the ex-Santa Fe passenger station.
The Lodi Local heads back to its namesake through downtown Stockton, at a location now shrouded by the cross-town freeway.
A WP manifest departs Stockton at sunset as it crosses the SP's Valley Line at El Pinal.
Cotton Belt 4139 West meets a freight holding on the eastbound main for a green signal at Stockton Tower.
A caboose brings up the rear of a hot 991 train as it passes into the thick pea soup fog of a Saturday morning in Stockon.
A consist of four ex-SP&S Alco Centuries waits at the fuel racks to be serviced for its next assignment up the Valley and the Feather River Canyon.
