On July 26, 1996, an eastbound Southern Pacific freight follows the Arkansas River as it negotiates the rugged and rocky confines of the Royal Gorge west of Cañon City, Colorado. Just ahead of th... (more)

The sixth eastbound train on the Modoc Line after the SP/DRGW merger descends Viewland Hill near Wendel, California. Mothballed between Wendel and Alturas, California in January 1987, the Modoc wa... (more)

A Rio Grande 144 train rounds the first eastbound horseshoe curve at Gilluly.

West bound freight passing thru Palisade, NV where the SP once met the Eureka & Palisade narrow gauge. Rhe depot was about fifty yards in front of where I standing.

With a low throated chug, two relatively new AC4400CW units ease their coal train into Plain, CO for a meet with westbound empties. The days of SP as an independent carrier and of the former D&RGW... (more)

On a gloomy Western Oregon morning, the Glendale Hauler heads for its namesake. The train is hauling loads out of Grants Pass to Glendale for pickup tonight by the MEEUM. By doing this, the road... (more)

On a sunny fall afternoon, SP trains meet in the Oregon Cascades.

A westbound Siskiyou Line train splits the semaphores near MP 600. When SP was remanufacturing its SD45T-2s, their final set up occurred in Eugene. They wouild make a trip or two down the Siskiyo... (more)

On a clear fall day, a westbound highballs Heather siding in the Oregon Cascades.

One of the more well-known publicity photos of the Shasta Daylight was taken on this curve. At about the same time of day as the Shasta would have passed by, a westman heads for Dunsmuir. The tra... (more)

An amply powered eastbound descends the west slope of Oregon's Cascade Range on a 1987 spring afternoon.

A quartet of 45T-2's are leading an eastbound train climbing the Tehachapi grade at Woodford.

Springtime thunderstorms gather over Tennessee Pass as a westbound Rio Grande freight descends the steep three-percent grade through the town of Red Cliff, Colorado, on the afternoon of May 24, 19... (more)

Shortly after a crew change at Dunsmuir, a westbound SP manifest crosses Castle Creek in the shadow of the Castle Crags.

An eastbound train of lumber empties is rolling along the Black Butte Subdivision. The orange plating over the class light receptacles was something I never saw on any other SP locomotive.