Santa Fe F7 38C leads the eastbound San Francisco Chief past the siding at Christie, California, on April 24, 1971. The train only has a week of operation left before the start of Amtrak. Fujichr... (more)

Burlington Northern RS-11 4180 (ex-NP 900) delayed its date with the scrapper by becoming a parts source to help keep Green Bay & Western's fleet of Alco locomotives running. The 4180 is pictured... (more)

Caltrain's freshly repainted leased SP GP9 3187 displayed on San Francisco Belt Railroad's now-removed tracks along The Embarcadero. The engine was spotted below Coit Tower high atop Telegraph Hil... (more)

Southern Pacific Fairbanks-Morse H24-66 3031 makes a station stop with train #147 in Sunnyvale on February 3, 1975 before continuing its run to San Francisco. By this late date 3031 was the last o... (more)

SP F7 6432 at the San Jose, CA fuel rack on July 20, 1971. By the time its 21-year career ended on November 15, 1972, not only had the 6432 become the last cab unit still in black widow paint, but... (more)

C&NW Baldwin AS-16M 1498 (ex-MKT 141) shows off its EMD GP9 long hood while switching the industries in Appleton, Wis., on December 20, 1980. Katy had the unit repowered by EMD in 1960, which resu... (more)

New meets old in Brisbane, California, as recently-constructed Caltrain commute cars in push mode pass 30-year-old SP GP9s pulling 60-year-old coaches. SP "torpedo boat" 3195 and a second GP9E, wi... (more)

SP SDP45 3201 on the point of No. 98, the southbound Coast Daylight, as the train arrives in Palo Alto in August 1970. The 3201 still has the L-shaped engineer's windshield. Kodachrome-X

Western Pacific F7A 918A, 918D, 914A, 916D near Sunol, California, on August 13, 1972. Running two (or more) locomotives with the same engine number was a quaint practice on some railroads that's ... (more)

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio F3 885A, 811A and Illinois Central GP10 8227 in Illinois Central Gulf's former GM&O Bloomington, IL yard on August 26, 1973. Kodachrome II

Fellow railfan Ken Rattenne and I pooled our flashbulbs and spent the night of April 15, 1987 shooting Operation Lifesaver engines SP E9 6051, WP F7 913 and UP E9 951 on the San Francisco Belt Rai... (more)

Southern Pacific's Sunnyvale Local with RS-32 4004 and C-50-4 caboose 1899 switching the Libby's cannery in Sunnyvale on August 3, 1973. The cannery closed in 1985 and the siding and yard tracks a... (more)

Western Pacific's "Fab Four," F7A 913, 917, 918 and 921, lead the Stockton-Milpitas Ford Fast at MP 33.8 in Niles Canyon, between Sunol and Niles Junction, on January 16, 1977. Kodachrome 64

SP SDP45 3209 with F7B 8127 and 8109 passing Santa Clara with a 10-car Coast Daylight TR. 99 with mainly Sunset Limited cars going to San Francisco for cleaning. Kodachrome II

Amtrak F40 229 and 348 lead the Talgo Train, along with three SP business cars, westbound over UP's former Western Pacific Altamont Pass line on Oct. 8, 1994. The Talgo cars were on a nationwide p... (more)