A westbound Southern Pacific taconite ore train begins the steep three-percent descent of Tennessee Pass as it exits the summit tunnel east of Mitchell, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 2, 199... (more)

A couple Southern Pacific AC4400CW's 349 341 haul a manifest over the ex Rio Grande main. Price River Canyon.

SP SD40T-2 8288, D&RGW SD45 5329, SP SD45-T2 9309 and SD40-T2 8354 are grinding up Cajon Pass. Sullivan's Curve is in the background.

41 years separate these EMD products. A brand new Cotton Belt GP60 is at the IHB's service track adjacent to a 1949-built NW2. Tom Golden photo.

SP 9010, the last surviving Krauss-Maffei rolls by East Sunol along Pleasanton-Sunol Rd between Sunol and Hearst.

As seen from an eastbound auto pacing on U.S. Highway 34 out of Galesburg, Illinois, a speedy Southern Pacific intermodal with Chicago on its radar, sprints through Oneida on Burlington Northernâ€... (more)

A Roper to Ogden Southern Pacific train, skirts Union Pacific's North Yard, on the Rio Grande runner. It's sad that normal sights like this, are all part of history.

A westbound train on the Siskiyou Line rolls across the Shasta Valley, late on a spring afternoon.

A southbound Wisconsin Central/Southern Pacific taconite load climbs Byron Hill at Hamilton, Wisconsin, on a frigid January 27, 1996.

Five tunnel motors are on the point of an oil train as it starts the grueling climb to Tehachapi at Caliente, California. 48 cars back are mid-train helpers, with another 24 cars and a caboose beh... (more)

Fresh off of a trip over Tehachapi, a westbound Southern Pacific manifest passes the station in Bakersfield, California.

An assortment of Southern Pacific EMD power I visible in the SP engine terminal in Bakersfield, California. To the left is Daylight-painted SD40E 7342, which is in town to assist 4-8-4 4449 over T... (more)

In February 2001, BNSF and the TP&W switched interchange of intermodal from Ft. Madison to the Galesburg terminal, where it was combined with manifest bound for Peoria. The intermodal portion of ... (more)

Two SD45T-2s pull intermodal loads down the BNSF (former CB&Q) main in a switching move. Intermodal and manifest were combined into one train at Galesburg necessitating this move at the destinati... (more)

Smoke from nearby forest fires dominates the morning as an eastbound Southern Pacific train on the Modoc Line starts the climb out of the Madeline Plains. Once the train reaches the summit at Cre... (more)