Southern Pacific 5472, an EMD SD9, rests in Brightside Yard at the Niles Canyon Railway.
Robert Dollar Co. #3, an Alco 2-6-2T, prepares for the day's steam operation at the Niles Canyon Railway.
Union Pacific ES44AC #7397 and five other locomotives lead the Global 2, IL to Oakland Z-train (ZG2OA) through Eckley. The five units following UP 7397 (in order) are ES44AC #7435, AC44CCTE #7004,... (more)
Union Pacific ES44AC #7963 leads the Oakland to Ogden, UT stack train (KOAOG-07) through Eckley followed by SD70M #4917, C41-8W #9541, and C45ACCTE #5288.
Amtrak California F59PHI #2011 sits idling at the Sacramento Amtrak station after shoving a Capital Corridor train from Oakland Jack London Square. This station has long since been abandoned and a... (more)
JPBX 504, an EMD MP15DC switcher, sits in CalTrain's College Park Maintenance Yard coupled to a string of Bombardier coaches that CalTrain recently acquired from Metrolink. Photo shot from ACE tra... (more)
Southern Pacific 2472, a Baldwin 4-6-2, leads the Niles Canyon Railway's Spring Steam Special through the Canyon at Brightside.
Southern Pacific 2472, a Baldwin 4-6-2 Pacific, sits idling at the Niles Canyon Railway's Sunol at the start of Day 2 of the Spring Steam Weekend.
Union Pacific's Marion, AR to Oakland stack train (KMNOA) passes through Sunol led by AC4400CW #6699 and UP 1995, the CNW heritage SD70ACe.
Union Pacific ES44AH #8220 and three other GEVOs lead a Z-train through McClellan Park in North Highlands, CA.
Union Pacific's Roseville to San Jose manifest (MRVSJ-19) passes through Pleasanton led by SD59MXs #9914 and #9924.
CalTrain F40PH-2CAT #901, the "San Jose", leads a Local set into the Sunnyvale CalTrain station.
BNSF C44-9W #4327 leads a manifest onto UP's Fresno Subdivision from BNSF's Stockton Subdivision at the Stockton Diamonds.
BNSF (ex-ATSF) Bluebonnet GP60 #160 leads the Sacramento Local through Stockton followed by another ex-ATSF Bluebonnet GP60, BNSF 161.
Virginia & Truckee No. 25, a Baldwin 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler, sits idling at the depot of the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City, NV next to one of the two pieces of equipment identified as Vir... (more)