Westbound Amtrak Capitol Corridor train #541 cruises past Eckley Pier between Port Costa and Crockett along the Carquinez Strait.

Caltrain "Baby Bullet" train 366 passes Caltrain 164 at the Bayshore station on its 57 minute trip to San Jose.

Amtrak 775 backs into its spur track in San Luis Obispo, CA. It will spend the night here being cleaned and inspected before making the run back to San Diego the next morning. Union Pacific's SLO-... (more)

Amtrak 14 (the Coast Starlight) traverses the Salinas River near Camp Roberts.

San Luis Obispo bound Amtrak 775 (the Central Coast Pacific Surfliner) crosses the trestle over Gaviota State Beach as the sun begins to set. Evidence of the recent Gaviota fire can be seen in the... (more)

This is at or near "Metz", a few miles south of Soledad, CA in the Salinas Valley, just off of old US-101. Amtrak 11 (the Coast Starlight) has just blasted out of a strangely out-of-place tunnel o... (more)

Amtrak 14 (the Coast Starlight) cruises over the trestle as several beachgoers enjoy the warm California sun.

An Amtrak surfacing crew tamps Caltrain's main track 3 at CP Stockton in San Jose, CA.

Caltrain's work train has been spotted on the Grumman Siding in Sunnvale, CA while Union Pacific's Broadway Local cruises by.

Caltrain's work train waits on the Santa Clara Drill while a southbound commute blasts by.

Here JPBX 504 poses on Townsend Street in San Francisco, CA alongside the historic "Baker-Hamilton" building. This track is the Coach Lead, and is used to access storage & maintenance tracks.

JPBX 500 & 504 pause between switch moves at "the Butterhouse" in Sunnyvale, CA. It was a complicated operation to run the engines around the train on the limited trackage here (limited in terms o... (more)

Yet-to-be-patched SSW 7293 bathes in the eerie light of Newhall yard.

Yet-to-be-patched SP 7118 bathes in the eerie light of Newhall yard.

Equipment for Amtrak's Southwest Chief and California Zephyr maneuver through the plant with an outbound Metra commuter train at Chicago Union Station.