A U36B/Mate set leads train R623 south into Manchester from Atlanta with heavy pulpwood loads on the head end.

Locomotives representing both sides of the Southern Pacific/Union Pacific merger hustle the LA-bound Swift RoadRailer through Cougar, California in summer 1998.

The Coast Starlight is running behind schedule as it pulls away from Mount Shasta on a summer morning in 1994.

The Napa garbage loads roll northbound on the Shasta Route in the summer of 1999.

F40s were the dominant power on long-distance Amtrak trains through the 1980s and early 1990s. The Empire Builder embodies the look of the era well back in 1993 as it passes through the University... (more)

Over two and a half years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, there was still a fair amount of SP power on the Shasta Route. Led by one of the 25 SD70Ms SP acquired in 1994, a southboun... (more)

The northbound Coast Starlight rolls along Grass Lake on a summer morning in 1995. The train is nearing the summit of Southern Pacific's crossing of the Southern Cascades. In about an hour, No. 14... (more)

NS 189 climbs Christiansburg Mountain on Main Two at Shawsville with a memorable consist during May of 1999. Behind former SOU 3197 is ex-N&W 1603 (another straight natural blues SD40) followed by... (more)

The northbound Coast Starlight prepares to stop at Mount Hebron, California on the Black Butte Subdivision. It will meet two opposing Southern Pacific freight trains there.

This former L&N unit was reengined by them and would end up shifting coal cars at the very end of the Carrolton Railroad which was a prosperous interprise operated by CSX. This modest little site... (more)

This was a special day for ATSF 104 as it was assigned to an employee appreciation passenger special making runs east from Joliet. Here it has arrived at Union Station, temporarily blocking Metra ... (more)

ATSF 2712 leads a blue trio of vintage Geeps on an eastbound freight at Streator, IL. At this date it was still possible to get all blue/yellow consists on Santa Fe's mainline across Illinois, but... (more)

A westbound manifest climbs the grade to tunnel 17 near Dorris, California on Southern Pacific's Black Butte Subdivision.

Nearly three years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a solid set of SP power works the Seattle to Los Angeles Z train.

A non-clearing eastbound holds up the RoadRailer on a cloudless summer morning in the Butte Valley. Lead unit SP 8626 had been built for Chicago Great Western 30 years earlier.