Southern Pacific heritage unit.
SP 6462 began life as Cotton Belt 320 in Daylight paint. The unit came West when SSW dropped passenger service. The unit lacked dynamics and had a standard pilot instead of an SP plow and spent mo... (more)
Engine named "Jackie Speier", state senator who secured funding for upgrades on Caltrain enabling Baby Bullet service.
A seven unit table train passing Santa Clara. Bit overpowered, I think.
"Coast Starlight", late as usual, with a Cascades F59 as the third unit.
a weathered SP 100 gets ready to couple to a disabled UP MSJRV.
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 Master #4803 arriving at Santa Clara, Sept. 1964 with one "gallery" car and a Harriman style RPO. Train 153 was an all stops train to San Francisco and the slowest train on the Peninsula... (more)
A Caltrain headed north to San Francisco.
A double-sided Capitol Corridor train aproaches Santa Clara near its final destination of San Jose.
"Coast Starlight" passing through Santa Clara.
Originally built in the 1800's for the South Pacific Coast Railroad.
A UP passenger special led by UP 1996, The SP Heritage Unit, passes the Santa Clara Depot at the end of what used to be Newhall Yard.
