The oldest named train on the SP, "The Del Monte" is crossing the Salinas River after leaving the SP mainline at Castroville and heading down the Monterey Branch. Today's train has several commute... (more)

SP #2380, a Fairbanks-Morse product, is getting ready to pull the lead unit off of Train #126 leaving just #3004 to take three lightweight cars to Monterey as the Del Monte, running long hood forw... (more)

Passing thru the town of Marina, just North of Monterey, SP 3004 has the two car consist of the days Del Monte in tow. In a few more weeks, the train will end with the coming of Amtrak. Today thes... (more)