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| (49K) Capitol train #729 ready to depart Sacramento while I wait for a very late #11 to take me to Salinas.
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| (47K) #729 crossing the steel drawbridge over the Sacramento River.
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| (72K) I knew train #6 had to be close by with all the pallets waiting to be loaded into the baggage car. Photo taken while on board #11 at 10:45 AM.
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| (86K) Sacramento station attendant checking the final tally of pallets to be loaded as #11 was pulling out.
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| (72K) Outside of Davis, we pass a late Capitol #528.
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| (53K) Arriving in the Oakland Coach yard, I love to take note of all the different locomotives stored there.
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| (46K) Ex-Amtrak "Pepsi Can #501" is now CDTX 2051, still my favorite locomotive style.
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| (40K) Amtrak switcher #736 awaits its next job.
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| (46K) Another view of Amtrak switcher #736.
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| (42K) Swift trailers parked and ready to be loaded onto roadrailers or be hooked up to a cab for order delivery.
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| (37K) At Oakland Jack London, two extra locomotives added on the head end. I did not have time to run all the way up to the front because we were about to leave.
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| (39K) Our original head end locomotive with the rest of the train in Oakland.
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| (43K) Back at my coach car ready to board.
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| (63K) Photo of my train near Alviso. Photographed by Robert Souter.
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