Southern Pacific’s westbound KCOAF (Kansas City to Oakland Forwarder) negotiates the canyon between Pando and Red Cliff, on August 2, 1996. Two GE AC4400CW locomotives from the Minturn helper pool... (more)

SSW 9627 leads the CHLAX stack train over the summit at Dragoon, AZ in the late afternoon.

SSW 6869 leads an interesting consist with a mixture of GP20, GP35, GP9 and U33C past the Tucson passenger station.

Intermodal speeds across a blanket of fresh ballast as the old Western Railway of Alabama mainline gets some attention.

Fall colors provide a vivid backdrop as pooled SP power leads an eastbound intermodal train on its approach to the west end of Norris Yard.

Photog John West....from my collection.

Four red-nosed GP35s bring a grain train - with lots of home road cars - north on the jointly-operated (with MoPac) river line. They will cross that river in a couple miles on the huge bridge to ... (more)

SP 8650 leads a double-stack train along the KCT Railway at the UP (former MP Coffeyville Sub) crossing at Sheffield. The 8650 is a former C&NW SD45 rebuilt as an SD40M-2. It's in the company of a... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific freight train treads the long, elevated viaduct approach for MacArthur Bridge over the Mississippi River at East St. Louis, Illinois, in December 1984. Powering the tr... (more)

My dad captured a rare occurrence here. A hotshot Southern Pacific train is running on the Union Pacific, ex Western Pacific (Shafter Subdivision). My assumption is the Southern Pacific Causeway i... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific (subsidiary St. Louis Southwestern, more commonly known as the Cotton Belt) freight train crosses the massive Thebes Bridge over the Mississippi River jointly owned w... (more)

Shiny Southern Pacific AC4400CW are found on the Pleasant Valley Subdivision loading a coal train. I think the Pleasant Valley Subdivision is the most forested, railroad location in the state. Tom... (more)

A set of four Southern Pacific SD39s was sitting in the railroad’s Taylor Yard, consisting of SP 5316, 5322, 5321 and 5301. These engines were built in late 1968. (Los Angeles, California – July... (more)

"May Gray" has changed into "June Gloom" (low-altitude stratus clouds which form over the cool water of the Pacific Ocean’s California Current, and spread overnight into the co... (more)

Three SP F7's A-B-A set wearing black widow paint scheme, on helper duty at Truckee, California in January 1955. Don Hansen photo from my collection.