The BNSF Oakland night job as light power is seen ready to start its way back to Richmond

Tthis inbound Richmond-Oakland transfer local is pausing at CP Maggie in Oakland. Train is shown shy of Market street about to make the back-up move into the Homested at UP's West Oakland Yard.

Fairly new SD70MAC CSXT4726 with flares and the current dark future scheme leads a sister CSX SD60 and UP stack train into the Alameda Corridor. Shot is at the north end of the trench w/ the SP J-... (more)

Crusing down grade towards the SLO depot.

Just past the Horseshoe, the helpers are approaching the southbound SOALC-11 UP Customers Special waiting in the hole at Chorro.

Two out of three unpatched SP SD40M-2's ain't bad. From this angle, it still looks like SP dominates the coastline 8 years after the UP merger!

Light helpers in the last sunlight of the day whining up Cuesta to make my day - big time.

starting to climb Cuesta just past Santa Margarita

SOALC Customers Special approaching Santa Margarita at Cushing.

Glossy from the overnight light rain showers, UP's entire 24-car passenger set is visible here after being backed into West Oakland's Homestead Yard. The lights of the S.F. Bay Bridge and Port of ... (more)

Rare visitor CSXT8579 (rare being a SD50 on a RR w/o many of these) leads an intermodal train past the Dumbarton Wye on the coastline at Carter. It will go to L.A. via the valley via Niles, Altamo... (more)

At trackspeed, the IOALB with CSXT8579 is running on the former WP Oakland Sub pass by the rocks at Hearst siding just a few minutes southwest of Pleasanton.

With the shorter nine car train made-up to depart Oakland for Los Angeles via the Coastline as the SOALC 11, the UP3951 and trailing E-units fuel up as dawn breaks.

At West Oakland's Homestead Yard, the clean wet UP3951 and trailing E-units UP949 and UP951 begin to set-out the block of UP passenger cars to be kept at Oakland for the next few months as part of... (more)