Engine, likely for one of the Specials and the other for the City Of San Francisco are being serviced at UP's Ogden roundhouse on May 10, 1969

Rio Grande #483 has just left Durango and is heading down the branch to Farmington, New Mexico, with loads of drilling mud and pipe. In a little over a year the branch will be abandoned and remove... (more)

One of SP's "hood" type of KM desel hydraulics

August of 1969, the F-unit era on the SP was drawing to a close as #6337 emerges from Niles Canyon, just West of Sunol. Today, this right of way is the home of the Niles Canyon Railway

Union Pacific E9 #932 has arrived with the "City of Los Angeles" at LAUPT while on an adjacent track, ATSF #39C is ready to leave with a "San Diegan".

Visible in this photo is the end the Milwaukee blinded, first on the two passenger Joe's then later to all of them.

The California Zephyr has arrived in Salt Lake from the West on the Western Pacific. The locomotives have been changed (the inbound WP units are to the left) and the train is now on the Rio Grande... (more)

SN 143 is returning to Walnut Creek after an excursion to Concord. This was part of the ceremony marking the abandonment of this piece of railroad and its eventual conversion to right of way for B... (more)

It is cold and raining as P&W SD9 #1854, in a brand new paint job, switches the Stimson Mill in Clatskanai, Oregon

On March 22, 1970, Western Pacific's California Zephyr stopped at Oroville, CA for the last time. While the engines were watered, both passengers (I was one) and onlookers got one last look at the... (more)

CalTrain was still twelve years in the future as SP Train Master #3032 pulls into Santa Clara with mid-afternoon train #116. The first gallery car still wears its original Lark gray with white st... (more)

Ready to depart Newhall Yard, 6235 is still wearing Black Widow paint. The second two units are commute GP9's, the second unit being #5623, lateer preserved at Niles Canyon. With the exception of ... (more)

On its way to Norristown, SEPTA Liberty Liner "Valley Forge" is approaching Bridgeport. Purchased from the abandoned North Shore by the Philadelphia & Western, the cars labored until the mid-70's.... (more)

E9 #912 pulling out of Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in March of 1971, less than two months before the coming of Amtrak would bring and end to the UP streamliner.

Working East out of Durango, #492 (K-37) and #484 (K36) are passing thru Bayfield. The crew has found #492 does not have enough sand and the fireman is on top of the boiler pushing what little he ... (more)