Making good time on its southern trip down the rails that the famous Daylight passenger train once plied, Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight races across the 811-foot-long Gaviota trestle.... (more)

As the morning light continues to warm the floor of the Central Valley of California, BNSF 7161 hustles a southbound (railroad east) baretable train over the Merced River at Cressey.

LOB86 enters the Mojave Sub at Bench for the short trip towards Slover.

A schnabel car move crosses the Santa Ana River into Anaheim. The J-SDGDAG9 consists of two locomotives, an equipment flat, caboose, spacer, the schnabel car itself, another spacer and caboose. It... (more)

Amador Central crosses California 88 near Ione. R&R's Jim Boyd graciously ducked down so I could get this shot without him in the foreground.

Basin is a remote place at the eastern end of Afton Canyon. The head light of a westbound coal train could be seen in the distance before it crossed the dried-up Mojave River at Basin.

The Benicia Martinez railroad bridge is 5620 Feet (1713 m) long.

Charging across Farwell Bridge. Here we see the beefy, Clover Valley #4, an articulated saddle-tanker, as she hauls her mixed freight across the Farwell Bridge at about MP 31.7. One of the... (more)

Unfortunately only a short train.

Eastbound back to Oxnard, crossing over Sanjon Road, Southern Pacific GP60 no. 1053 and Union Pacific GP38-2 no. 654 makes for a for a nice looking Oxnard Local. Not very often do we see the local... (more)

Southbound San Joaquin crosses the bridge at Empire Ca.

Pulling eastbound up Niles Canyon, No. 7, Skookum rolls through the bridge at Farwell in the heart of Niles Canyon during Pete Lerros Niles Canyon Photo Shoot

Action at Keddie in February 1971, shows a train coming off the 4th Sub the High Line from Bieber. Powered by a solid set of first generation F's and a Geep, this was a rare sight at this late da... (more)

WP Lives. Deep in the mountains of Northern California, you can still find traces of the Western Pacific Railroad. It has been almost 40 years since the WP ceased operations but much of the... (more)

Hustling across the Middle River at Orwood, BNSF 8192 leads an eastbound manifest for Stockton in the morning light. This bridge, located just east of a similar bridge-type that crosses the Old Ri... (more)