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The last day of 2006 found a "museum train" ferrying a partially rebuilt SP 4-6-2 #2472 and other equipment from the Golden Gate Railroad Museum in San Francisco to the Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol, CA. During an inspection stop at Millbrae, lead unit UP 9989, its engineer, and a...
Trying out the "more glass than metal" upper level of new Holland America dome cars at Santa Clara, CA in April 2003 before the cars are shipped off to Alaska for cruise train service.
San Francisco's Muni is in the process of adding two more train/trolley grade crossings to the list. Their new line on 3rd St. crosses UP industrial spurs at Carroll St. and Cargo Way. I think there's at least one place in San Jose, CA where VTA's Vasona extension is crossed by a spur from the...
Yes, thank you Ciao. For those wondering, I had asked about this photo: http://www.railroadforums.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=40750
Those intake shrouds look like something adapted from Southern Pacific's pre-tunnel motor attempts to keep their SD45's cool in the mountains. Judging from...
Looks like a regular refrigerator car to me. It wasn't uncommon for railroads to advertise their passenger service on the sides of their freight cars, and those are ordinary freight car trucks on that car. I can't see the ice hatches from this angle, but the yellow paint and plug door...
The Santa Fe crosses the Santa Fe at Redondo Junction in Los Angeles, CA, November 28, 1999. The tower still stands boarded up in 2006, but the trackage has been completely reconfigured and the diamonds are gone.
With just seconds of sunlight remaining on the last day of 1994, the eastbound Southwest Chief climbs the grade up from the Pecos River at Blanchard, NM.
Do end-cab switchers have a "face," per se? The hood end is invariably the front, but that makes for a face that would make Jimmy Durante envious.
San Francisco Belt Alco S-2's #49 (ex-23) and 25 had long been fixtures at San Francisco's Golden Gate Railroad Museum, but the units...
Streak-o-light shots around Tehachapi Loop have a history of winning photo contests. Robert Hale took a famous black and white shot very similar to this one decades ago, and I recall reading that it won a non-railroad photographic contest. Bet he's looking down and smiling now.
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