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WINNERS:
2025 SLORRM Photo Contest

Congratulations to our winners of the 2025 Photo Contest! And many thanks to everyone who submitted photos!

All photos on this page are copyright protected by the photographer.

For those interested, here are the 2025 Photo Contest Guidelines. For information about all years including guidelines and winners, see the Photo Contest page.

First Place
Photo by Christian Schultz
"Amtrak ALC-42 #319 leading northbound Coast Starlight 14 up the Cuesta Grade at Chorro."





Second Place
Photo by Kathleen Bosch
"Mellow Yellow Criss-Cross," taken May 1, 2025 from below the Jennifer Street Bridge in SLO.





Third Place
Photo by Christian Schultz
Buckeye and No. 8 doublehead over the top of the Lone Tree Loop with a consist of B Gondolas as the Davenport trench locomotive, no. 5240, exits Tunnel 2 with a MOW train at sunrise on the Norgrove Railway.












Honorable Mention
Photo by Thomas Knapp
Coach 101, combine 106, and baggage-RPO 201 behind locomotive #110 waiting in front of the PCRy's San Luis Obispo offices and station. Locomotive, rolling stock, and all structures are scratchbuilt N-scale-narrow-gauge (Nn3).



Honorable Mention
Photo by C. Alexander Beck
Early evening in San Luis Obispo in late October 1982, showing several SP Diesel, the old water tower, and parts of a Sugar Beet car.



Honorable Mention
Photo by Richard Jackoway
Morning Surfliner winds through Price Canyon. Taken August 26, 2025 near Price Canyon Road and West Ormonde Road.



Honorable Mention
Photo by Christian Schultz
Pacific Coast Railroad #2 pauses at the Yerba Buena Avenue crossing as Engineer Marco Alcaino and Conductor Slayde Franklin confer about the days operations. Santa Margarita, California.