There had been no regular passenger trains thru Agnew since the very early 60's. With the coming of Amtrak, the Daylight/Starlight was now running to Oakland on the old South Pacific Coast. The Ag... (more)

In the Deschutes Eiver Canyon.

Royal Gorge #403 is emerging from the East end of the Royal Gorge and returning to it Canon City terminus. The #403 was a C&NW unit aquired by the UP and later sold to the RGR.

It is Easter Sunday, 1971, as #3006 readies to leave Sacramento for Tracy with the Sacramento Daylight. The connection with the San Joaquin Daylight had been moved to Tracy from Lathrop the previo... (more)

Passing Horsethief Lake on the way home.

Before the FRED, there was the CABOOSE. SP SD45T2 9213 is pushing thru Emigrant Gap in March of 1986. It was SP practice to place a single helper behind the caboose and two or more were placed ahe... (more)

Pacific Locomotive Association's "Truckee Limited" would be the last chartered excursion operated by the SP. It is seen passing the snowshed complex at Norden on the way East. The following Saturd... (more)

Amtrak FP7 #122, formerly SP #6459, has Amtrak's "San Joaquin" in tow as it enters the connector track from the SP to the Santa Fe at Port Chicago. The overhead in the background carried the rails... (more)

The shortest Daylight both in consist and distance was the Sacramento Daylight. Running from its namesake city to Lathrop (then later to Tracy) making a connection with the "San Joaquin Daylight".... (more)

Time was growing short for Amtrak's SDP40F's as #533 waits for a highball to head North (SP West) up California's Coast, Public timetables referred to this train as #14, but to conform to SP's tra... (more)

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.

Amtrak F40 #341 is leading the Westbound California Zephyr thru Yuba Gap. The train itself is strung out over "Streamliner Curve", so named because it was the location where SP's City of San Franc... (more)

By 1994, nothing symbolized the Espee of the time as well as #6807 as it sat at Sparks engine pit awaiting its next assignment.

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)

Acquired from the McCloud by the commission rebuilding the V&T in Nevada, #18 was loaned to the Sierra for excursion service as, at the time, Sierra was supposed to operate the V&T. This excursion... (more)