Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight eases towards Oakland's Jack London Square with a Charger locomotive in the lead, a first for the west coast train. It's only a matter of time before the aging ... (more)

A UP manifest heads north through Jack London Square.

An Amtrak Capitol Corridor train meets a UP manifest as it approaches Oakland's Jack London Square Station.

Idling away in the Union Pacific’s former Western Pacific yard in Oakland are UP SD40-2 3373 (built 3/77) and UP SD40-2 3916 (ex-MP 6016; née-MP 3232; built 8/76). Before long, these locomotiv... (more)

Jack London. One of the more famous stretches of actual Class I Railroad street running in the United States is in Oakland, California. Since the days of Southern Pacific team, both passeng... (more)

Sitting in Western Pacific’s Middle Harbor Yard, considered the westernmost part of the WP system (because the WP’s San Francisco trackage was only accessible by ferry) is the power off, most ... (more)

Amtrak's Coast Starlight cruises northbound through Oakland's Jack London Square, with heritage unit #160 in the lead. This is the first time this locomotive has passed through the Bay Area wearin... (more)

A Brook And A Box. On the night of Saturday, July 25, 2020, former New York Central Railroad Budd built Pullman obs/diner/sleeper "Babbling Brook" (WEBX 800007) was parked in the Amtrak Yar... (more)

A weekend Amtrak California train passes two stored dash-8s in Oakland. The last time i recall these units being used was during the aftermath of the Montecito Fire in 2018. Heavy rains following ... (more)

Today ex-Zephyr FP7A 805-D and two F-units are rolling a 58 car freight west-bound near Oakland, California on March 10, 1970. From my slide collection, no photographer's name on slide.

California Department of Transportation (CDTX) Dash 8-32BWH 2051 was built as Amtrak 501 in December 1991. (Oakland, California – February 20, 2018). Photographed on railroad property with ... (more)

In the 1960s, my father sought out Santa Fe and Southern Pacific PAs whenever he was in California. Here, Southern Pacific #102, the eastbound City of San Francisco, is led by four PAs soon after... (more)

SN 661 pulls out of the spur at Rockridge so it can be at the rear for switching at 40th and Shafter. William T. Larkins photo.

West Coast Comets. Amtrak California acquired 14 Comet 1Bs from NJ TRANSIT in 2008 to accommodate its increased ridership. These cars had already been de-motorized from their original Arrow... (more)