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Sunrise at Sunrise this morning. For the first time since we got home from vacation in mid-October, our daughter drove me to light rail and rode Sacramento's Gold Line from Watt/Folsom to Sunrise for

Three trains leaving and entering the east end of SP's Roseville, California yard in April 1981 3 Trains in a Row at Roseville, April 1981 | | | | | | | | | | | 3 Trains in a Row at Roseville, April

I've lived in northern California all my life, other than 9 months in Texas for Air Force training, and in the Sacramento area since 1960.? So,Roseville has been part of my railfanning since 1972,

Two visits to Donner Summit, 30 years apart. Donner Summit 30 years apart, 1987 and 2017 | | | | | | | | | | | Donner Summit 30 years apart, 1987 and 2017 Two visits to Donner Summit, California, 30

SD9 SP 5399 takes an Albany and Eastern excursion train back to the yard in Lebanon, Oregon after a pre-Winterail trip in March 2017.?? DSC_0392-Lebanon-5399 | | | | | | | | | | |

Mike, That is one beautiful SD9. I sure miss the old SP from the time that they ran the SF-SJ commuter service. I guess it’s too much for Caltrain to paint some engines and passenger cars in SP

Who know, maybe Caltrain might give us a black widow F40 or red/scarlet MP36.? :-)? I doubt if anyone would complain.? The cabbage cars Caltrans uses on the San Joaquins with the Comet cars are in

I would be thrilled to see an F40 in black widow paint, even with the Caltrain logo on the side. But I doubt that the Caltrain board, which is actually a “subsidiary” of SamTrans, the San Mateo

Okay, let's get serious. Enough about the Black Widow fiddle-faddle, you wild optimists. We had New York Central lightning stripes on Metro North FL9s and on E8s, so us East Coast types have died and

Dave, What you are saying, I think, is that Metro-North has more historical awareness than say Caltrain. Kudos to NJ Transit for its recent Heritage loco paint schemes. But it's not fiddle-faddle,

Phil, greetings, again. "Silver Rails Through the Heart of the Park" is the title, published by the NYCSHS. The price through Ron's Books is $112.00, postage free. The USPS Media Mail rate is probably

800 pages?? Yeah, I'd think volumes 1 and 2 would be in order.? David Myrick did multiple volumes for his Railroads of Nevada and Railroads of Arizona books, rather than have a massive book that

Dave, I'm also a born and raised New Yorker (Brooklyn and Queens). I never thought much of the "I love NY" slogan, because I couldn't see the point. Another slogan, "If you see something, say

Yes, I think 800 pages is more than a bit excessive. If you divided this up into two or three volumes, then a slipcover might be justified. Unfortunately, many people with great subject knowledge do

This SPF (slobbering Pennsy fan) admits to a huge admiration for the NYC, earned by being able to visit so many hotspots when I lived in and around the Big Apple. But seriously, 800 pages? Mother of

UP 5113 leads a westbound manifest train along San Pablo Bay at Herculdes, California on a sunny day in July 2016.?? DSC_0456-Hercules-5113 | | | | | | | | | | | DSC_0456-Hercules-5113 Oakland,

Let's take a ride on the Cumbres and Toltec.? Chama and first bit of the 4% grade out of Chama to the Lobato Trestle. C&TS Chama, New Mexico to Lobato Trestle, 9 Oct 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | C&TS

Day two of our trip on the California Zephyr to Glenwood Springs in October 2019 California Zephyr, Book Cliffs to Glenwood Springs, 5 Oct 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | California Zephyr, Book Cliffs to

Some photos taken on Friday of UP at Roseville in the late afternoon and early evening. Roseville Sunset, 29 November 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | Roseville Sunset, 29 November 2019 I stopped by

Trains of the Bern-Lotschberg-Simplon Railway at Kandersteg, Switzerland.? Kandersteg is located at the north end of the Lotschberg Tunnel. bimage078-Kandersteg | | | | | | | | | | |