After a visit to the California State Railroad Museum, I had the honor of photographing the famous 12

4014 has just entered California and approaches the summit of Beckwourth Pass at approximately 5200 ft. above sea level.

4014 gets underway for the run down the Canyon Sub at the Clio Trestle, just west of Portola.

4014 gets underway southbound/westbound out of the whistle stop in Oroville.

4014 rolls through the hills approaching Oroville.

4014 rolls westward on the Westward Bound Tour, crossing the the North Fork of the Feather River and passing under the arch bridge carrying California Route 70. The CA-70 bridge was opened in 19... (more)

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 poses for some night shots during a photographer's event hosted by the Western Pacific Railroad Museum. The stars were shining bright on this warm evening.

Union Pacific SD70M, No. 5218 leads the southbound Guad Local along Rincon Beach in the fading light of evening.

Rolling past Union Pacific's Ozol Yard is Amtrak train 710, a San Joaquin heading form Oakland's Jack London Square to Bakersfield. This train consists of California Department of Transpor... (more)

AT&SF, Santa Fe SD40-2 5155- U36C 8798- SD45-2 5663 & 5637, with a westbound trailer train at Goffs, California. June 22, 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

This Railpower Technologies (RPI) RP20BD locomotive, numbered 5406, carries no visible reporting mark, so conventional wisdom has it as a Foster Farms (FPFX) unit. Then again, it could also be ow... (more)

Sandrini, at milepost 927 on BNSF Railway's Bakersfield Sub, is a rather lonely place located in California's southern San Joaquin Valley. And it is here where we find southbound (eastbound on th... (more)

NS 1041 leads UP's Mojave to Yermo local out of town as it gets onto BNSF rails at South Mojave.

SERA 2679 at BNSF Riverbank.

A.L Gilbert's newest addition at Keyes, CA.