Sacramento RT light rail CAF cars - symmetry!

Departing for the Bay Area, back in the steam (heat) era... Sleeper "Indian Pony" (former ATSF) bringing up the rear.

Servicing during station stop

While on a business trip my father Robert Hedlund took this photo as he waited the trains arrival. Power WP FP7 804-D & two F3Bs.

Getting ready couple to the coaches and start the Sacramento River Train run.

The sole survivor of Southern Pacific's Cab-Forward locomotives and the last new steam locomotive purchased by the SP rests silently at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.

SP 2467 is one of 3 surviving SP Pacific-type steam engines, all of which are in California and in various stages of restoration. SP 2467 was restored by the Pacific Locomotive Association in the ... (more)

Light rail street running in Downtown Sacramento.

In November of 1971, SP crews changed at Sacramento. The Western Division crew, which started in Oakland, was replaced by a Sacramento Division crew which took the train to Sparks. The outbound cr... (more)

It is November of 1971, the so called "Rainbow Era" of Amtrak is underway as SP power leads cars from the UP, GN, BN, SP (their home built dome car), and CB&Q. The scene is at the West end of the ... (more)

ATSF 543, a Fairbanks-Morse H12-44TS, was once a switcher for Santa Fe's Dearborn Station in Chicago. Only three of these locomotives were ever made, and this is the only survivor, rusting away on... (more)

It is Easter Sunday, 1971, as #3006 readies to leave Sacramento for Tracy with the Sacramento Daylight. The connection with the San Joaquin Daylight had been moved to Tracy from Lathrop the previo... (more)

The Snow Train has just crossed the Yolo Causeway, by then a single track, out of Sacramento and heading for Davis. It was the first year of P32's serving as power on the train and they would only... (more)