Arriving in Michigan City, Indiana from Chicago, South Shore #15 is stopping in front of the South Shore depot and, in typical interurban fashion, unloading in the middle of the street. The motorm... (more)

Led by preserved F40 #231, the mid-week Snow Train is passing the community of Hirschdale. The following year, F40's would give way to the P32's. #231 has been preserved in Portland, Oregon thru t... (more)

Westbound at Floriston by then using "Horizon" coaches

It was the first week of September, 1996, and time was running out for the Southern Pacific as D&RGW #3117 leads two SP units out of Davenport, CA on the return trip to Watsonville over the Davenp... (more)

With the planned closing of the Sierra Pacific (the one time Pickering Mill) at Standard, things were looking bleak for the Sierra Northern, the one time Sierra Railroad. Heading East GP20 #48 ha... (more)

The San Joaquin heading to Bakersfield. The E units only lasted a few weeks on this train and were soon replaced with ex-SP FP7's.

On the way to South out of San Francisco in December of 2002 with an excursion train---also carrying Xmas decorations.

Departing Alamosa for a trip over La Veta Pass. Former SP 2-6-0 1744 made several excursion runs in the SF Bay area in the mid-50's. Put on display in Corrinne, Utah, the engine later ran on the "... (more)

Westbound on the now removed #1 main, SP 6795 is on what has become known as "Streamliner Curve" as it was the location where the City of San Francisco was snowbound in 1952

On its way to the ammunition depot at Hawthorn, NV, (Thorn in SP-speak) SP 3789 has stopped at Silver Springs to spot some empty cars for loading. The train will stop the following day on its retu... (more)

Former Sierra Railroad #36 during its tenure on the "Heber Creeper", at the time, properly known as the Wasatch Mountain Railroad. It is now the Heber Valley.

SP 3005 has Train #151 in tow, a Northbound (SP West) commute train heading to San Francisco. It is making its stop at Santa Clara. Newhall Yard in the background is now gone, but GP9 #3005 is pre... (more)

SP Train #2, The Eastbound Sunset at Los Angeles ready to depart

MUNI recently placed #1077 in service decorated as a Birmingham car. The car itself has never been to Birmingham but started out as Twin Cities #360 before going to Newark as New Jersey Transit #2... (more)

Eastbound on the former SP Niles Canyon line, now the Niles Canyon Railway passing under the tell-tale at Farwell