Southern Pacific, SP 6819 E/B 1EUCHQ (First Eugene/Chicago Quality Merchandise which means finished lumber) at Kobe, CO with EMD 750 and an SP GE on April 17, 1997. Kobe was the location that most... (more)

Union Pacific, manned rear helpers SP 295 & 311 shoving on the rear of a coal train at Mitchell, Colorado on April 18, 1997. This train was SP 357 with another AC on the headend and 4 manned mid t... (more)

Daylights meet at San Luis Obispo

Back to back A units are in charge of SP train 99, the Coast Daylight, at Glendale California in 1958. Otto Conrad Perry photo, my collection.

Southern Pacific 184 waiting in the siding at East Vaughn, NM on the SP on December 16, 1995, with SP 343 with a mixed freight. This I believe is the first SP freight I saw with AC44CW's as the po... (more)

Southern Pacific 328 E/B leads a Texas Coal train out of the Pando Tunnel on the west side of Tennessee Pass on April 9, 1997. This was a Union Pacific coal train with 4 mid train manned helpers a... (more)

Southern Pacific 8609 W/B mixed freight early morning photo in April of 1996 as the sun is rising. The SP 8609 is crossing Cienega Creek along with CSX 2607 & 8628.

Puget Sound and Pacific lease unit CEFX 9392 roster shot at Shelton, WA on September 27, 2002. PSAP and 2 former SP SD45T-2's on lease from CEFX at this time.

Tennessee pass train. SP 7490 leads an eastbound train along the Arkansas River near Texas Creek CO in 1994.

Fairly new and just off a recent CR train. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collection.

It's almost 48 years ago, the 45s were pure, loud gas hogs, glorious brutes. The ramshackle tower still stood, cabooses were required and the Kaiser ore train traversed the arid countryside with... (more)

An eastbound intermodal is departing and headed for Beaumont Hill. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

Maybe the only caboose hop I ever shot on the SP, this one was actually headed west around the loop as I recall.

More efficient passenger power was needed as the PA's and E-units began to rack up the miles, and in the spring of 1967 the SP began taking delivery of ten new 3600 h.p. SDP45s from EMD (3200... (more)

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)