SP 9010 makes a photo runby on a clear summer-like day as the engine passes the unused semaphores. Note the "mars" light turned on and the photographer shooting from the cab of SP 9010. Guillermo ... (more)

Now this is a real train set! SP 5623 does some shunting around Brightside Yards, preparing to put the "members train" coaches back into their rightful places. This makes a 'almost-exact' consist ... (more)

Southern Pacific Heritage! SP 5472 and SP 1423 line up side-by-side as SP 1423 clears the main storage track for SP 5472 to position itself in. Guillermo Sanchez © 2014

SP 1423 shunts other rolling stock to organize the messy yard in Brightside. Note the UP MOW equipment on the left hand side that was donated to the Niles Canyon Railway Museum in 2008. Guillermo ... (more)

SP 5472 takes a rest after switching the half-dead SP 9010 into her shops for continuous restoration work, and to prep the engine for a future operation in the Niles Canyon Railway. SP 5472 awaits... (more)

The Richmond Pacific EMD SW900 backs on one of the storage tracks with 2 other units in Niles Canyon Railway's Brightside Yard. Nice to see the faded baby blue-white paint scheme out in person. Gu... (more)

SP 9010 leads, along with SP 5472 as a helper unit, a 2-car passenger set as it travel's through a farmer's crossing not too far from Brightside Yards. SP 9010 cruises by the yellow flowers on a b... (more)

SP 5623 passes a yard limit sign and the semaphores just west of the Sunol Depot.

Niles Canyon Railway didn't advertise this event on the social media and the internet because it was originally meant for members of the Niles Canyon Railway Museum only but those that were aware ... (more)

To celebrate National Train Day and SP 9010's 50th birthday, Niles Canyon Railway brought out Southern Pacific #9010, the last remaining Krauss-Maffei ML4000 diesel-hydraulic locomotive in existen... (more)

Both the steamer and the streamliner are side-by-side for a photo session taken place at Sunol Depot on a mild March afternoon. Guillermo Sanchez © 2014

Western Pacific #918 and Clover valley Lumber Co #4 pose, while the engineers converse, at the Sunol Station after the running of the Post Winterail Photographers Special.

Clover Valley Lumber No. 4, at notch 4, passes through Farewell heading towards Sunol for a photo shoot. Guillermo Sanchez © 2014

Western Pacific F7A 918A, 918D, 914A, 916D near Sunol, California, on August 13, 1972. Running two (or more) locomotives with the same engine number was a quaint practice on some railroads that's ... (more)

Western Pacific's "Fab Four," F7A 913, 917, 918 and 921, lead the Stockton-Milpitas Ford Fast at MP 33.8 in Niles Canyon, between Sunol and Niles Junction, on January 16, 1977. Kodachrome 64