The Napa Valley Wine Train rolls over a short trestle just outside of Yountville as it makes its way through the many vineyards of California's rich wine country as it makes its return run to Napa

Westbound UP freight crosses Oroville Bridge.

The Oil Cans prepare to cross over the 101 freeway at Ventura.

Excursion Train from the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum - The morning run of the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum train crosses the bridge over Campo Creek pulled by a GE center cab 80 t... (more)

UP's Tracy Hauler rumbles over the San Joaquin River on a beautiful Spring afternoon with a former SP coal motor leading the 63-car train.

The early evening light glinted off a Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay Railway passenger train as it crossed Antonelli Pond on a return trip from Wilder Ranch. After a long absence, Santa Cruz & Monterey... (more)

The passing of this train brought with it the end of an era for Sonoma County railroading, as this was the last train to cross the original Haystack swing bridge. Built by the San Francisco and No... (more)

Surprise military train! Following an amazing three days below Mount Shasta, I was hanging out with the guys and had just gotten my full from a big dish of spaghetti when we saw an unexpect... (more)

Everybodys surfin' on the starlate.

A southbound Caltrain commuter train has just left Redwood City and is a minute out of its station stop at Palo Alto on the run to San Jose.

East coast power on a west coast mountain pass. NS SD70 no. 2523 leads a pair of CSX AC6000CW GEs down the westbound grade of Tehachapi Pass. Captured here crossing over Tehachapi Creek between Wa... (more)

Fillmore and Western GP35 3501 heading back to Fillmore from Santa Paula with an excursion train during Railfair 2015.

Good morning Capitola! The Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay Railway’s GP9 MH 89 pulls 4 tank cars over the historic Capitola Trestle on an inspection/test run from Watsonville, CA to Santa Cruz, CA. Th... (more)

A grain train to Nuwest Milling in nearby Hughson CA crosses the Merced River with nine locomotives up front (didn't get them all in the frame).

A former Idaho, Northern & Pacific GP40, since acquired by the moribund (stillborn?) Pacific Imperial Railroad, awaits its first day of service over a wash bridge in the desert in the Imperial Val... (more)