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)

Climbing out of Mound House, NV is V&T #29 operating a special winter excursion over the reconstructed railroad. The group had come to Reno on The Reno Snow train and the following day was on th... (more)

Night Photo session during NRHS convention

Geographically Northbound but railroad Westbound, SD9's #4371 and #4350 are climbing toward Luning after leaving Mina. Once part of the narrow gauge Carson & Colorado, this section, from Thorne to... (more)

A horizontal view of an earlier posting with the Eastbound Scrap train at Big Canyon on the McCloud Railway with Mt. Shasta looming in the background.

Amtrak train #5, The San Francisco Zephyr, departing Truckee. The air temp was hovering around zero. Note the ice around the filler for the boiler water.

Although newer power in the form of SDP40F's would arrive later in the year, in January of 1974 it was still former UP E units and an SP FP7 providing power for Train #5, the San Francisco Zephyr.... (more)

Returning to Virginia City

Crossing Two Medicines River on the way West, 4449 has the Fall Colors excursion in tow.

The Eastward San Joaquin, Train #52, just past the crossing of the San Joaquin River at Mossdale

Working on the point of an Eastward freight, two EMD SD70 lease/demonstrators are setting out two locomotives to be picked up by a Westbound later in the day at Monolith, which is just East of the... (more)

Former commute Geep #3189 and sister #3190 along with two freight geeps are working the outbound Permenente Local. The Kaiser facility (now Hansen) located in the foothills West of San Jose still ... (more)

In November of 1971, SP crews changed at Sacramento. The Western Division crew, which started in Oakland, was replaced by a Sacramento Division crew which took the train to Sparks. The outbound cr... (more)

Less than two months of revenue freight operations remaines as #37 heads South at MP B32

BN #565 is doing some switching work to the San Francisco Zephyr while it is in Denver Union Station.