A Union Pacific freight train is making time as it speeds safely past a Union Switch and Signal Style B semaphore at Coyote Siding, MP 14511, near Carrizozo, New Mexico on September 11th, 1999. St... (more)
While everyone else in the photo line was busy shooting the low morning sun on the face of the UP 3985, I turned around to witness this image come to pass in the opposite direction. This photo was... (more)
Former Southern Pacific steam locomotive GS 4 # 4449, built by the Lima Locomotive Works of Lima Ohio for the SP in 1941, is seen here on the point of the American Freedom Train at Chatsworth Cali... (more)
This was the final Union Pacific train that was to be guided by the nearly 100 year old US&S Style B semaphores at Coyote Siding (MP 14527) near Carrizozo, New Mexico, on September 20, 1999. Signa... (more)
On a suggestion from a friend of mine in Bellingham Washington, I went in search of Clayburn Junction in British Columbia. Clayburn Jct. is where the Canadian Pacific and the Southern BC railroad ... (more)
A BNSF General Electric C44-9W # 1053 is westbound leaving Monolith approaching the summit at Tehachapi, Calif. July 5th, 2002. Steve Crise Photo. © scrise.com
I saw a shot like this one done many years ago by Gordon Glattenburg at Lairport (LAX) on the Santa Fe’s old Watson sub. I couldn’t get a PA and a Connie together, so I had to settle for this ... (more)
Steel rails, stars and semaphores. Coyote siding, MP 14518, New Mexico. Spetember 18th, 1999. Steve Crise Photo. © scrise.com
I didn’t know it at the time I was making this shot, but this was to be the last night of operation for the pair of cantilever’s at Mons crossover. Mons is on SP’s Sunset Route near Palm Spr... (more)
Two freight trains meet on UP’s Cima sub at Kelso, Calif. August 8th, 2003. Steve Crise Photo. © scrise.com
An ancient Union Switch and Signal Style B Semaphore on the Southern Pacific’s Siskiyou Line near Roseberg, Oregon, September, 9th, 2000. Steve Crise Photo. © scrise.com
“Dependable Transportation”. A Union Pacific ALCO S-4 # 1171 somewhere in Oregon about 1980. Steve Crise Photo. © scrise.com
A future engineer poses with his little sister and his new best friend. Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Los Angeles, Calif. April 7th, 2005. Steve Crise Photo. © scrise.com
A loose spike at Monolith, Calif. January 1998. Steve Crise Photo. © scrise.com
The old Santa Fe turntable at Redondo Junction that used to handle super power steam engines of the AT&SF is in now in charge of turning Amtrak diesels. This is one of the few remaining turntables... (more)
