Struggling upgrade at Emigrant Gap, 5 SP tunnel motors and one SD9 are passing the once important station on the SP. The sixth unit, an SD9, is equipped with an icicle breaker to clear ice from t... (more)

Arriving at Berry, #37 will be left in Burney for future use while trailing unit #36 will take the loads from the Sierra Pacific mill back to McCloud the following day. By this time it took a full... (more)

Filling in on a Capital, CalTrain F40 #900 is at the SP Sacramento Depot in September of 1993. I don't remember exactly why, but it is safe to assume Amtrak was short on power and, being a weekend... (more)

After a long delay, the Snow Train is finally on the move at Long Ravine. It is 3:30 PM today and the train is due in Emeryville at 4 PM. The UP was single tracking from Colfax to Bowman and it wa... (more)

At least 3 hours late, #379 is arriving in Colfax with the Westbound "California Zephyr". The sun has almost set and the snow on the nose of the locomotive gives mute testimony to the weather acro... (more)

AMTK 297 is approaching the Reno Depot after leaving the SP yards in Sparks. The train is on the present location of the Reno trench, built to bypass numerous crossings in downtown.

San Jose, Amtrak #11, the Coast Starlight, is led by an unusual combination of power, one of the then new F59PHI's ordered for Amtrak California and one of the older F40's.

Under mandate from the ICC to get offline cars returned to their owners, power short Southern Pacific pulled its SDP45's off commute service and put them hualing freight. To replace them SP leased... (more)

With their 645's wound up, 7494 and three others start the climb out of Truckee to Donner Summit

Returning to California after a display date in Reno, the Freedom Train with the 4449 on the head end arrives in Truckee CA, on Thanksgiving Day 1975. Cold and snowy but still met by a large crowd... (more)

SP Train Master #4803 arriving at Santa Clara, Sept. 1964 with one "gallery" car and a Harriman style RPO. Train 153 was an all stops train to San Francisco and the slowest train on the Peninsula... (more)

After Amtrak took over the Reno Fun Train, it has had a series of different equipment. In March of 1989, the F40's were pulling a combination of Amtrak Superliners and ex-Santa Fe hi-levels (conve... (more)

Amtrak #6, the Eastbound California Zephyr approaching Pinole as it runs along San Pablo Bay. The #289 was, at one time, equipped with SP style icicle breakers but, by 1987, they had been removed.

With about 27 miles to go to reach Reno, the Zephyr has just about finished its over night crossing of Utah and Nevada as it follows the Truckee River Westward

Arriving in San Jose and passing College Park Tower, which, although slated for preservation was destroyed by a homeless persons campfire. SP 3190 survives but in derelict condition on the idle No... (more)