The 0-4-0T Santa Cruz Portland Cement No. 2 (aka "The Chiggen"), built by H. K. Porter in 1909, began life at the cement plant in Davenport (11 miles north of Santa Cruz) and served the... (more)

Two weeks after this photo was taken, the Mare Island Rail Service (a subsidiary of Tri-City & Olympia Railroad) ceased operations on Mare Island when their operating contract was cancelled. Show... (more)

UP 1603 and 1552 tow a short string of cars through the Lear Industrial Center in the Stead area located northwest of Reno.

This BNSF double-stack train passes the Emeryville Amtrak station en route to Oakland.

A westbound unit cement train descends through Franklin Canyon en route to the Bay Area. DPUs 6786 and 7724 brought up the rear.

The 906 "Burlingame" leads a southbound afternoon commute.

Clover Valley Lumber Co. No. 4 does a photo pass along the Niles Canyon Railway during the 4th annual Winterail Photographer's Special hosted by the Pacific Locomotive Association. Recently resto... (more)

Clover Valley Lumber Co. No. 4 arrives at the Sunol depot in grand style for the 4th annual Winterail Photographer's Special. The Pacific Locomotive Association began restoration in 2007 and the ... (more)

Operating days numbered, MIRS 113 runs light westbound across the causeway between Vallejo and Mare Island. The Mare Island Rail Service (owned by Tri-City & Olympia Railroad) evacuated all of th... (more)

NWP 1922 moves a cut of grain hoppers to a local feed mill.

Before the UP 150 Express Train was backed into the California State Railroad Museum for the 150th Anniversary Celebration event, two of the three auxiliary locomotives, #8715 and #8775 (seen here... (more)

NWP #2009 and #1922 idles the rail train (continuous welded rail) while the next section of rail is prepared for off-loading on the other side of a grade crossing just ahead. Seen on the ground i... (more)

San Francisco Bay Railroad #23 pulled the first cut of container cars loaded with support equipment for the 2012-13 America's Cup World Series sailboat races into Pier 80 during the media kick-off... (more)

Southbound NWP #2009 and #1922 with caboose (ex-SP #1971) return to Petaluma after delivering concrete ties to Rohnert Park for the SMART (Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit) rail re-construction proj... (more)

The young railfan seen here got his money's worth when this Northwestern Pacific train rolled into Petaluma. Behind the locomotives (genset #2009 and GP-9 #1922) were nine grain hoppers, six bulk... (more)