SP #8498 trailing a dead P30CH and an operating F40 has brought the Sunset into Lafayette 45 minutes early. This me a chance to shoot some photos and make an urgent run to a nearby drugstore

After helping SP #4449 from Klamath Falls to Gerber the big SD was turned (it had been running long hood forward) and headed down the SP's West Valley line for the trip home to the Bay Area. The 4... (more)

Copper Basin #402 (ex-KCC#2) is leaving the concentrator at Hayden, AZ and heading for the mine at Ray. It is around 5PM and the air temp is hovering around 100 degrees. As the people of Arizona ... (more)

Heading to Sacramento from San Jose, the four units make up one of the early OLS trains

With V&T 2-8-0 #29 out of service, former McCloud #18 is working the weekend steam trips on the reconstructed V&T from Eastgate (Mound House) to Virginia City. Seen here at Haywards in the hills d... (more)

Having made up it train in Holbrook, #99 and two stable mates are at the yard limits and throttling up for the Southbound climb

On the way South out of Holbrook, AZ, C420 #81 is making its second round trip of the day and is hauling loads of coal for the mill at Snowflake

Emerging from the tunnel at Bridge Bay on Lake Shasta, 4449 will duck into one more tunnel then head out onto the double deck Pit River Bridge which carries both highway traffic on the upper deck,... (more)

On the way home to Portland, SP 4449 is crossing the large bridge over the Sacramento River in Redding, CA with the Amtrak/4449 cross country excursion. It is Friday, April 29, 1977 and on Sunday,... (more)

Gettimg ready to take a freight West to Chama, 2-8-2 #498 takes water in the three rail yard in Alamosa in June of 1967

The Klamath & Hoppow Valley Railroad was a short, isolated piece of railroad on California's North Coast just outside the town of Klamath. The #10 had come from the Pickering Lumber Company's Suga... (more)

In a day when such excursions were possible, Santa Fe Alco S2 is loading passengers for an excursion around the yard and out onto the Richmond Belt. Besides the engine the consist was a gondola wi... (more)

In May of 1981, #4449 journyed to Sacramento to participate in the opening of the California State Railroad Museum. As part of that, it was used in "performances" outside of the Museum with a musi... (more)

On a "photographer's special", California Western #45 exits Tunnel #1 and crosses the Noyo River on the first photo run of the day

Two of SP's venerable SD7's, although forty years old, were still at work for their original owner at the East end of the Roseville yard.