Westbound train with foreign power is tiptoeing thru the daisies. No tulips.

Close enough...The Southern Pacific (Northwestern Pacific) and its successors were doomed from the start in Humboldt County, California. The main reason none of these railroads could ever be profi... (more)

This beautiful 4-6-2, number 631, was built in June 1928 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, for the Southern Pacific Railroad. According to the specifications listed on th... (more)

A rare Geneva Utah bound taconite load with 3 SP GE's and a mix of hoppers. I believe these were symbolled something like ST815.

SP power brings a BN manifest train from Superior WI on the Hinckley Subdivision to Northtown.

With the grungiest looking motor on the point, a SP double stack train heads into the sunset.

A SP and Rio Grande unit lead an empty taconite train from Geneva Steel.

A former SP FM H12-44 rests at a locomotive dealer near El Paso in the spring of 1979 Note the old as delivered Barrel Headlights

Night moves. The crew of Southern Pacific Locomotive #18 stops to confer with their colleagues on SP Locomotive #9, as their two freights pass each other in the yard at Laws, California. <... (more)

A Slim Princess Sunset. The setting sun bursts through the cab windows of Southern Pacific Locomotive #18, the "Slim Princess", as a clear, chilly March day comes to an end in the... (more)

A busy afternoon in Laws. The little Southern Pacific Yard in Laws, California suddenly gets a bit busy with Locomotive #18 in the background freshly fueled and watered and ready to take th... (more)

Perfect alignment. A Southern Pacific Brakeman muscles the bridge of the gallows-style, "Armstrong" turntable into perfect alignment as his crew prepares to turn Locomotive #18 in... (more)

The "Slim Princess" steps onto the table. Watching the track interface carefully, the fireman on Southern Pacific Locomotive #18 carefully marshals his locomotive onto the gallows... (more)

Heading out into the Owens Valley. A Southern Pacific Conductor watches from the back platform of Combine/Caboose 401 as his short mixed train leaves the south yard in Laws, California, hea... (more)

Hay-burners and oil-burners. A young horsewoman with a pack mule in tow, crosses the Southern Pacific tracks near the depot in Laws, California, headed for the nearby hills with supplies fo... (more)