In a bucolic view of Northern California life, Santa Fe's 991 train rolls past the depot at Pinole.

An eastbound Amtrak Capitol rolls along San Pablo Bay at Pinole, California, on March 12, 1995. The train is led by GE P32BWH “Pepsi Can” No. 501, that was later sold and became California Dep... (more)

Amtrak California Zephyr was heading south for Richmond after a 3.5h major delay.

Amtrak train number 6, the eastbound "California Zephyer" hugs the coastline as it passes under the San Francisco Bay Trail in Pinole, CA.

Here's another one of my father's pictures from Pinole. SD24 4541 - RSD15 9827 - GP30 32XX lead a Santa Fe train into the early morning sun circa 1969/1970. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo

Union Pacific 7135 leads coal loads west bound along the bay through the curve at Wilson Point at 2:41pm. Her final destination at Richmond, California is only a few miles away.

Along a foggy San Pablo Bay, an eastbound Southern Pacific unit steel coil train curves through Pinole, California, led by “Kodachrome” EMD SD40R No. 7303 on March 2, 1987.

ATSF 102 leads a piggyback train at Pinole, CA on March 7, 1997.

Here is another of my father's pictures from Pinole, CA in the 1960's. Three Santa Fe Geeps lead a short train that must have a pretty good roll on it as the semaphore hasn't started to drop yet.... (more)

When my father had business trips to the Bay area in the 1960s, one of his favorite spots was Pinole, where both the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific skirted San Francisco Bay. Here a GP9 still ... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe manifest rolls through Pinole, CA, with classic two-story houses on all sides. Exiting Franklin Canyon, the train will briefly skirt Suisun Bay and SP's Cal-P line before head... (more)

Capitol Along the East Bay: Pinole, California provides some excellent views of trains along San Pablo Bay. In this scene, Amtrak California Dash-8 number 2052 leads an afternoon Capitol Co... (more)

Late on a beautiful afternoon in July 1989, a hot Santa Fe pig train roars through Gately on the railroad's Stockton Sub. In the distance are the hills that surround Franklin Canyon, and at center... (more)

SP's Worlds Fair Daylight hustles through curves along San Pablo Bay with 4449 on the point.

Not Exactly a Pinole Colony

Skirting the shore of San Pablo Bay on June 17, 2017, is Amtrak train 738, a San Jose to Sacramento Capitol Corridor train, passing through a tidal... (more)