Passing a freight at Spring Garden

Crossing the Feather River at Pulga

Photo run

Cloudy and rain as #844 leaves Stockton and heading to Roseville.

At Yuba Gap, just West of where the SP's City of San Francisco was snowbound in 1952.

Along the Truckee on the bank opposite from Interstate 80

The UP, on the former SP shot from the CP. Which means I was standing on the original CP right of way as UP844 heads for California

Approaching the one time SP water stop at Humboldt, Nevada

Leaving Winnemucca after taking fuel and now heading West on the old SP.

McCloud #25 Westbound at Kinyon with a photo freight on the way home to McCloud. This portion of the railroad, and everything East of Pilgrim Creek Rd. has been dismantled.

Passing semaphores just West of Sunol

Eastbound on the former SP Niles Canyon line, now the Niles Canyon Railway passing under the tell-tale at Farwell

A group of UP's business cars passing thru Elkhorn Slough on the way to Oakland

Time was running out for the last Santa Fe passenger train operating in Northern California as ATSF #301 leads the San Francisco Chief on the last leg of its journey thru Hercules and on to Richmo... (more)

Pacific Locomotive Association's Oakland to Truckee "Truckee Limited", the last excursion operated by the SP prior to Amtrak.