Rio Grande SD45 5315 with eight smoking GP40's accelerates west of Grand Junction, at Loma Colorado on November 3, 1970, pulling a heavy westbound freight train as it climbs towards the desert... (more)
Most everybody else bought small orders of these, if any, but SP jumped in with both feet. They were big, they sounded good and they were very flawed.
An eastbound intermodal is departing and headed for Beaumont Hill. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.
Looking good, but hobbled by no transition and rail-spreading trucks, these six axle Alcos were exiled to slow speed yard service. Alco had problems under the hood but their products were big an... (more)
Southern Pacific GP9's 3593 and 3598 rolling by Portland's Amtrak Union Station with their consist of box cars and hoppers on November 14, 1971. Electro-Motives GP9 became the SP's basic four... (more)
Southern Pacific 7319 slowly leads a long manifest through the reverse curve as it heads east up San Timoteo Canyon.
On August 8, 1967 Southern Pacific FP7 6455 and a B-unit arrived with a nine-car No. 99 the Los Angeles-bound Coast Daylight, crossing the ATSF tracks at Mission Junction near the Los Angeles... (more)
A quartet of Tunnel Motors lead an eastbound Southern Pacific freight as it departs San Luis Obispo with California's Coast Range mountains (and a vineyard) for a backdrop. The power is SP SD40T-... (more)
Southern Pacific AC44 114-144-349 leads a Geneva Ore train on the D&RGW Tennessee Pass line at Balltown, Colorado. May 10, 1996. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
Photographer unknown. From my collection.
SP 7950-1605-7951-7944-1602-7945, Lordsburg, New Mexico. January 19, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
Around a year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a lumber drag from Oregon arrives at Dunsmuir.
A coal train bound for Searles highballs Bealville siding in the Tehachapis.
An Oregon-bound drag of lumber empties descends the grade out of the Tehachapi Mountains at Cliff siding on a hot July 1988 afternoon.
An ex-Southern Railway SD45 is sandwiched by a pair of Southern Pacific SD40T-2s on a Shasta Route lumber drag in summer 1988.
