Sacramento Sightems - 1

Casa Lola - Sacramento  2025

Streetcar - Sacramento  2025

Casa Lola photo taken while walking back to our hotel after a restaurant meal.

Sacramento Alleys

Alley, Dumpster - Sacramento  2025

Alley, Dumpsters, Reflections - Sacramento  2025

Sacramento alley sightems. Latest in a long list of alley photos.

Sacramento Morning Rain

Love, Reflections - Sacramento  2025

Pressure Spraying, Rain - Sacramento  2025

Quick rainy early morning walk around our hotel

Sacramento Murals

Mural, Peruvian Restaurant - Sacramento  2025

Street Mural - Sacramento  2025

We experienced a botched Uber ride to the restaurant, but it turned out to be close enough that we could walk back to our hotel.

Railroad Museum - 3 (Cab Forward Articulated)

Cab Forward Rods and Drivers - Sacramento  2025

Cab Forward Articulated - Sacramento  2025

"Southern Pacific 4294 is a AC-12 class 4-8-8-2 cab-forward–type steam locomotive that was owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) in March 1944 and was used hauling Southern Pacific Railroad's (SP) trains over the Sierra Nevada, often working on Donner Pass in California. Today it is preserved at the California State Railroad Museum (CSRM) in Sacramento, California." --Wikipedia

The locomotive is so large that I had to use the iPhone's wide-angle option to get a (stretched) photo of the whole engine. A Sony RX100 was used for the top photo.

In 1958 my father and I were visiting Southern Pacific's Taylor Yard in Los Angeles when I came across some cab-forwards decaying on the tracks. So I have a 67-year old photo of the soon to be scrapped number 4149.

Southern Pacific Number 4149 Locomotive - Los Angeles  1958

Railroad Museum - 2

Baldwin Locomotive No 13 - Sacramento  2025

Silver State - Sacramento  2025

Many of the exhibits present the various pieces of railroad equipment as works of art. 

There was a nice historical perspective exhibit concerning the role of Chinese emigrants in the building of the railroad through the Sierra Nevada.

Railroad Museum - 1

Museum Exterior - Sacramento  2025

Pioneer Square - Sacramento  2025

A visit to the Sacramento Railroad Museum! Wow . . . high on our priority list. The GPS got us there without any problem . . . and, a parking spot was easy enough to find. Wow!

Sacramento Murals

 

Mural #1 - Sacramento  2022

Mural #2 - Sacramento  2022

Taken during a recent trip to Sacramento for a nice Thai lunch with our dining group.

Some 2018 murals have been seen on the blog before.

How True

 

You Are Great - Sacramento  2022

Here, It's Beautiful (Fairfax) - Marin County  2022

Recent truisms found in Sacramento and Fairfax.

Sacramento Evening

Moon, Evening - Sacramento  2019

Entrance Around Building - Sacramento  2019

Walking to a Japanese restaurant after parking the car.

BTW, there are so many freeways in Sacramento that if you use GPS for directions, even for a relatively short trip, you'll be getting on and off various freeways. And performing lots of merging and lane changes.

BTW, the food was good! Below, their rendition of gyoza.

Gyoza - Sacramento  2019

Monday Dog and Crow Blogging

Dog, Crows, Runner - Sacramento  2019

Taken from our hotel window overlooking the Sacramento River.

Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge AM - Sacramento  2019

Tower Bridge PM - Sacramento  2019

Our hotel room overlooked Sacramento's famous Tower Bridge, constructed in the 1930s. "The bridge style represents a rare use of Streamline Moderne architectural styling in a lift bridge, making it an outstanding expression of the social and architectural climate of the period of construction."

One of our walls was decorated with a painting of the bridge, in case we didn't want to go to the window and look out.

Tower Bridge Painting - Sacramento  2019

Sacramento - 2

Sunset, Sacramento River - Sacramento  2019

Trees in Water - Sacramento  2019

Views from our hotel window. The Sacramento River was running quite high.

Sacramento - 1

Auto Glass - Sacramento  2019

Appliances - Sacramento  2019

We spent a weekend in Sacramento last February in order to drive up into the mountains for some family snow time. Nice weather!

iPhone photos.

Hugo's - Sacramento  2019

Sacramento Sightems

Funeral Chapel - Sacramento  2018

Tree, Parking Garage - Sacramento  2018

From earlier in the year, using a Canon G5X.

Sacramento Murals

Mural #1 - Sacramento  2018

Mural #2 -  Sacramento  2018

Murals seen in Sacramento while on a Diners' Club brunch excursion. Overcast, chilly.

I used a small Canon G5X.

Mural #3 - Sacramento  2018