In 1994, Mountain Top, Pennsylvania's Morrison-Knudsen plant was releasing rebuilt units as SD40M-2s for the Southern Pacific Railroad. On September 1, Conrail train ALHB-2B has fresh SP 8600, 86... (more)

A 116 car DVROM snakes through Kyune along the Price River on a sunny Nov. 9, 1996 afternoon.

Approaching the small town of Eagle, Colorado, an SGVCC coal empty rambles through scenic Red Canyon on Sept. 26, 1996.

After cutting out the helpers, Southern Pacific's NSGVC coking coal train departs 7440 ft. Soldier Summit the evening of Sept. 10, 1996. This would become my very last photograph of an SP train be... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific coal train passes another laid up with locomotive issues on top of Soldier Summit, Utah, on September 7, 1995. Note sand on the rails in front of SP GE AC4400CW No. 3... (more)

On a crystal clear Utah County morning, Southern Pacific's Geneva, Utah to Terror Creek, Colorado coal empty rolls east through Springville on Feb. 20, 1995. It appears 11,752 ft. Mount Timpanogos... (more)

Southern Pacific's ROCHM waits for a helper engine to arrive while the TASNC cruises by at Castilla on Dec. 23, 1995.

All three of SP's BiCentennial painted locomotives were put together along with a selection of SP rolling stock for a photo special in Cajon Pass shown pausing for the photographer just below Hila... (more)

Southern Pacific's TASNC coal empty meets the UT04L local at Lakota Junction on July 15, 1995.

Southern Pacific's Kansas City to Roper Q-train heads west through the switch and the shifted load detector at Lakota Junction on a hazy Sept. 27, 1994 morning. With 20 years of urban sprawl and t... (more)

Southern Pacific's 68 car UT04L local roars east through American Fork while the SP 9609 awaits a relief crew on Dec. 17, 1994.

SP166 leads the charge at Stillwater. The grade here abruptly changes from a knuckle breaking 3% too a 'level' 1%. 39,600 H.P. are needed to lift 13,000+ tons over the Continental Divide at Tenne... (more)

The "Oil Cans" (BKDOU, Bakersfield to Dolores CA unit train) passes up a heavy lumber drag at Cable, a few miles west of the town of Tehachapi. Head end power is an SD40T-2 and five fla... (more)

A Southern Pacific coal train heads eastbound through Warren Curve west of Mojave, California, on March 8, 1996. Three GE AC4400CWs power the train, led by SP No. 198.

Southern Pacific Fairbanks-Morse H24-66 3031 makes a station stop with train #147 in Sunnyvale on February 3, 1975 before continuing its run to San Francisco. By this late date 3031 was the last o... (more)