A Texas-bound UP stack train is being build by a PHL crew as they wait for Badger Bridge to lower so they could shove back to the APL terminal on Terminal Island to pick up the rest of their train... (more)

Santa Cruz Portland Cement No. 2 returned to home rails in July 2014 after 90 years, powering three days of public excursions over the Roaring Camp, Big Trees & Pacific and the Santa Cruz & Monter... (more)

Returning south to San Diego, a sleek looking Coaster trainset passes over Soledad Creek after diverting away from the Pacific coast at Del Mar.

LOF66 makes its bi-weekly jaunt south through Jalama Beach with a nice set of older EMD power.

Seen crossing Loma Alta Creek, Pacific Surfliner #774 is only about a minute or two out of the Oceanside stop on it's way to San Diego. It is running about 15 minutes late today.

Trestle on the Transcon
An eastbound BNSF intermodal train led by three GE C44-9Ws crosses a wood pile trestle at Park Moabi east of Needles, California, on March 16, 2005

Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight train is running seven hours late as it approaches the Sacramento River Bridge near Tehama, California. The steel cross bars of this bridge are dated at 1929.

The merger of Union Pacific Railroad with Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific took effect on January 1st, 1983. In March 1983, Western Pacific GP40 3532 was painted in UP yellow and gray while r... (more)

7:36:28 AM. A grayish morning on Altamont Pass as ACE train #5 traverses the Diablo Range, carrying commuters toward the southeast SF Bay area.

Late afternoon high above the tracks near Park Moabi, BNSF 8040 leads this westbound along the last few miles of the Seligman Sub where it will change crews at Needles in a few short miles.

The Napa Valley Wine Train rolls across a short trestle just outside Napa on the trip south

BNSF 7646 leads a westbound train across one of the many dry washes along the BNSF Needles subdivision.

A westbound stack train bound for the Port of Long Beach charges west as the lone DPU helps shove the train over the ex-SP bridge at Betram, Ca along the Salton Sea.

The Roseville to San Jose Manifest passes over Altamont Pass road and the former SP right of way as it crosses the Greenville Trestle on its decent of the west slope of Altamont Pass.

Amtrak P40-8 802 leads the Sun Tan Special over Capitola on its way to Santa Cruz May 18, 1996. The train operated roundtrip from San Jose with the 802, Superliner lounge 33036, diner 38049, coach... (more)