The Western Railroad Museum runs their annual Scenic Express even April. Their historic Sacramento Northern interurbans make frequent runs though the lush springtime green hills of the Delta. The two former SN cars were supplemented by a former Salt Lake and Utah observation lounge. The museum has about five miles of former SN mainline that has been re-electrified and upgraded, and looks (to me at least) about what a well maintained interurban line probably looked like during prosperous times. The museum is about an hours drive from my house and I make the trek on two successive Saturdays.

Sacramento Northern April 2019

April 20, 2019.
April 13, 2019. Heading north from Birds Landing. In the background is the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers were they flow into Suisun Bay, and the SN operated a car ferry to get to the Oakland end of the line. After a wet winter the hillsides are emerald green, within a month or so it will be turning summer brown.
April 20, 2019.
April 13, 2019. Western Railway Museum's springtime "Scenic Limited" through the green hills to Birds Landing.

April 20, 2019. Northbound approaching Gum Grove with Mount Diablo in the background.
April 13, 2019.
April 13, 2019.
April 13, 2019.