SP 8489 west leads the BSMFF (Blue Streak) the wrong way down the eastward main past a semaphore signal near at Cienega Creek bridge due to a derailment on the #2 track.

An eastbound Modoc Line train drops down the grade into Horse Lake, a couple of weeks after the line was reopened upon the SP/DRGW merger.

Southern Pacific train 2-834, the second section of an eastbound (compass south) freight that originated in Santa Barbara and was bound for Los Angeles Yard, passes by the Chatsworth station, in t... (more)

Thunder on Tennessee Pass
The summer monsoons in Colorado’s high country have arrived again on the afternoon of August 2, 1996, as an eastbound Southern Pacific freight that has been cl... (more)

SP 7867 is leading a stack train thru numerous curves as it climbs Beaumont Hill.

A smoking B-boat lashup drags an SP train up Beaumont Hill in 1984.

Southern Pacific’s RVSAM freight climbs Tennessee Pass on the morning of August 1, 1996. The eastbound train is working its way out of the canyon between Redcliff and Pando, Colorado, and is going... (more)

The Shasta Daylight is burning up the Cal P near Elmira on a hot summer day in 1956. This image was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

A westbound Southern Pacific piggyback train passes Redwood Jct. Tower sometime in the 1950s. This image on SP's San Francisco Subdivision was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

Imagine it's 1960. The Southern Pacific narrow gauge is on its last legs, so you decide to go photograph it on Washington's birthday. You're going to drive to the Owens Valley and chase the train ... (more)

On the morning of July 26, 1996, a Southern Pacific coal train passes through the signals on the east side of the town of Haswell, Colorado. SP used the Rio Grande route over Tennessee Pass and th... (more)

When my father had business trips to the Bay area in the 1960s, one of his favorite spots was Pinole, where both the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific skirted San Francisco Bay. Here a GP9 still ... (more)

A westbound Rio Grande freight led by EMD SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motor” No. 5370, passes the site of Keeldar siding on the eastern approach to Tennessee Pass near Leadville on May 24, 1991. A sparkling C... (more)

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 the... (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)