The San Luis Obispo Based helpers start up filling the air with the stench of diesel exhaust. This night the helpers are to be used to help push a long northbound MWCPT over Cuesta Grade. Nikon ... (more)

A Union Pacific rail train makes its way around the second horseshoe curve up on Cuesta Grade. This is where Serrano siding used to be before a mudslide wiped it out and forced the railroad to mo... (more)

An Oakland bound inter-modal train stops in SLO for a crew change. Someone has changed the front herald to read “Onion Pacific”. Nikon D70, 35-70mm.

A Union Pacific officers special heads south through the salt marshes at Alviso on its way to San Jose. I could not have asked for better lighting for this shot. I got sun about 15 minutes before... (more)

Sierra Railroad number 48, an Ex-Santa Fe GP20 rests at the head of a dinner train in Oakdale Ca. A lot of the dinner train cars are being worked on currently. Nikon D70, 18-70mm.

The San Luis Obispo helpers sit on the helper spur after the first real rain of the season in SLO. Nikon E995.

A UP freight makes it way across the Stenner Creek Trestle as it heads south off of Cuesta Grade. In the background Bishops Peak can be seen as the sun sinks behind clouds in the west. Nikon E99... (more)

The eastbound California Zephyr makes its way along the Carquinez Straight east of Crockett. Nikon D70, 18-70mm.

A patched SP SD40M-2 leads a Roseville to Newark freight through Rodeo, just north of Hercules along the Cal-P. Nikon D70, 18-70mm.

Cal Train 918 Leads the Capitol Corridor south towards San Jose through some of the salt marshes at the bottom of the San Francisco Bay. Nikon D70, 75-300mm.

“You wouldn’t like trains if you worked for the railroad” the engineer of this north bound informed me when I was taking photos. The northbound here was waiting for a southbound to clear of... (more)

In the last light of day a southbound manifest passes through Alviso. Nikon D70, 18-70mm.

The northbound Coast Starlight starts its way up Cuesta Grade passing the Cal Poly swine unit. Cerro Vista, Cal Poly's new apartments for second year students can be seen in the background. Nikon... (more)

A Union Pacific work train heads south towards Newhall Yard. Here it passes though Alviso on a levy in on of many salt marshes in the bottom of the San Francisco Bay. Nikon D70, 75-300mm.

An old Santa Fe CE-3 caboose that was condemned in December of 1982, some how found its way up to Oakhurst, a small town near the south end of Yosemite National Park. After a day of hiking Half D... (more)