A southbound Caltrain commuter train has just left Redwood City and is a minute out of its station stop at Palo Alto on the run to San Jose.

East coast power on a west coast mountain pass. NS SD70 no. 2523 leads a pair of CSX AC6000CW GEs down the westbound grade of Tehachapi Pass. Captured here crossing over Tehachapi Creek between Wa... (more)

Fillmore and Western GP35 3501 heading back to Fillmore from Santa Paula with an excursion train during Railfair 2015.

Good morning Capitola! The Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay Railway’s GP9 MH 89 pulls 4 tank cars over the historic Capitola Trestle on an inspection/test run from Watsonville, CA to Santa Cruz, CA. Th... (more)

A grain train to Nuwest Milling in nearby Hughson CA crosses the Merced River with nine locomotives up front (didn't get them all in the frame).

A former Idaho, Northern & Pacific GP40, since acquired by the moribund (stillborn?) Pacific Imperial Railroad, awaits its first day of service over a wash bridge in the desert in the Imperial Val... (more)

Another auto repo train blasts through this steel trestle, which was built in 1909.

A westbound Capitol Corridor train crosses an impressive steal beam trestle in Benicia, California as it races the auto traffic on Interstate 680. Soon the train will be crossing hundreds of feet ... (more)

Crossing the Oasis - [2014 Winter Solstice Study] - The stark contrast between sands of the Sonoran Desert and the riparian boundaries on either side of the All American Canal just outside ... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe manifest crosses the Tuolumne River bridge south of Empire, CA. I saw this consist in the Richmond locomotive facilities the night before and drove out to Empire during the ... (more)

Port job.

Arizona & California’s eastbound freight crosses a low trestle at milepost 152 at Sablon, California, on March 16, 2004. Powering the train are two of ARZC’s SD40-2Ms, Nos. 4002 and 4003, rebu... (more)

Returning to Watsonville with empty tanks picked up from Ewe Pee in Pajaro.

Looking right at home under the Southern California sunshine, Norfolk Southern's 'Savanna & Atlanta' heritage painted SD70ACe drifts across the 984 foot long bridge over the Santa Ana River near A... (more)

A large stack train for the Oakland International Gateway comes crawling over the Muir Trestle high above the city of Martinez.