Power lines and a wet road paralleled the train tracks on the trip south.

A dirt road paralleled the train tracks on the trip south.

The Amtrak trip south paralleled a ranch in northern California.

Storm clouds covered a small town beside the Amtrak route south.

A rusted vent atop a warehouse next to the Amtrak route south.

Two windmills generated power in the distance from the Amtrak route south.

Further down into California, rolling hills appeared in the distance beyond a farm.

Wet lands paralleled the Amtrak route south through California.

At one place, in southern California, water was in the foreground, and hills rose in the background. And a road ran through the middle of it.

At long last, San Francisco Bay came into view off to the right of the railroad tracks.

Support cables for the Bay Bridge were in the foreground, and Treasure Island lay beyond in the middle of San Francisco Bay.

After hundred of miles traveled, San Francisco finally came into view.

Nearing the end of the trip, the Ferry Building came into view.

A video of the train trip south, which includes video from the Castro Street Fair.