Napa Valley Railroad number 73 basks in the early morning sunlight in their yard in Napa.
This beautiful 4-8-4, number 1403, was built in January 1947 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, for the Western Maryland Railroad. According to the specifications listed o... (more)
Napa Valley Railroad NVRR 69 sits outside the diesel shop waiting for repairs.
Napa Valley Railroad NVRR 73, 71 and 70 bask in the early morning sunlight at the railroads yard in Napa.
NWP 2009 sits in the Golden Gate Railroad Museum yard along with 4-6-2 steam locomotive Southern Pacific 2472. Behind the SP 2472 is SP 3194 (GP-9) and SP 1487 (FM H-12-44).
NWP 1922 sits with SP 4435, SP 4347, SP 4451, B&LE 716B and B&LE 718A (F-7 A and B units), plus other rolling stock that could be in museums, in Schellville, California.
A crew has arrived to board Union Pacific 7418. This view from Pepper Street also shows BNSF 7338 waiting for a crew. Behind the BNSF 7338 is HLRX 3002, a former Arizona & California GP-30.
Lead by Unit Pacific 2584, brand new NCTC 5006, 5007, 5008 and 5009 sit in the West Colton yard as a storm off the Pacific Ocean approaches. Soon the new locomotives would be turned over to the B... (more)
My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)
San Diego and Imperial Valley 702 has a crane on each side of the locomotive. When I took the photograph, I figured the engine had derailed and was now back on the rails, or it would soon be lift... (more)
BNSF 146 and BNSF 122 prepare to head back into the yard in San Diego to pick up another string of cars to switch. In the background is the the big United States Navy shipyard.
UP 8064 and UP 5026 push on the back of a long manifest train heading west into the Tucson yard.
It is still morning but it already above 90 degrees as UP 8139 waits for a crew to take a long auto rack train east into Tucson.
It is a beautiful morning as Union Pacific 7183 and Norfolk Southern 3610 accelerate a long doublestack train east out of the yard in Tucson, Arizona.
BNSF 8290 leads a manifest train north out of Phoenix, Arizona.