Passing thru Alviso, a small community north of San Jose, SP #3209 has the Coast Starlight in tow. After passing thru Oakland, at that time the, train became #12 instead of #11 to conform to SP'... (more)

Geographically Northbound but railroad Westbound, SD9's #4371 and #4350 are climbing toward Luning after leaving Mina. Once part of the narrow gauge Carson & Colorado, this section, from Thorne to... (more)

D&RGW GP40-2 #3113 passing thru Hazen, NV Westbound. Hazen is where the Fallon Branch and the branch down to Mina, now truncated at Wabuska, left the mainline. In the consist, two Conrail geeps an... (more)

SP 7476 is leading 6 other units as they mke the climb thru Woodford toward the Tehachapi Loop in August of 1990.

Waiting for its next call to duty NP F7A rests at Seattle's King St. Station. In the background, is Union Station which, at the time still hosted UP passengers. Today King St. is modernized and Un... (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)

Ready to leave San Diego for LA, an Amtrak San Diegan sports mostly Santa Fe equipment, the Amtrak lettered combine the only outward indication that this is no longer a Santa Fe train. An REA Expr... (more)

Still running as train #102, Amtrak's City of San Francisco (later to be the San Francisco Zephyr and train 5 & 6) is arriving at Denver Union Station behind an A-B-A set of E-units.

Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr is East of Colfax crossing Long Ravine Trestle. #8982 had been added at Roseville for the run over Donner Pass and the hose carrying the air signal line can be seen o... (more)

Almost two years into Amtrak's existence, the former Santa Fe "San Diegan" service is a mixture of equipment. The Santa Fe F and a mix of Santa Fe and Southern Pacific cars rest at San Diego's dep... (more)

With the air temp hovering around 10 degrees above zero, SP #8942 is leading 5 ex-UP E-units thru the former ice and beer making town of Boca, California. Until I scanned this slide, I had never n... (more)

Southern Pacific's Permanente Branch from San Jose to the cement plant at Permanente was a stronghold of first generation power until the early 90's. In June of 1991, GP9 3191, retired from commut... (more)

Amtrak's F40's first worked on the Reno Fun Train in 1978 in combination with SDP40F's and the remaining two ex-SP FP7's. Twenty-three years later, in 2001, they would make their last trips on the... (more)

Amtrak's first summer as SP 3205 awaits the highball to leave SP's 16th St. station in Oakland with the Coast Starlight. Thirty-Six years later, the station and tower remain but all else is gone.

The coming of Amtrak saw trains #5 and 6, the San Francisco Zephyr (or whatever they called it in the first few months) again running SP FP7's. In this shot, they are passing Eckley, now known as ... (more)