An clean SP GP9 in the "Rudolph" color scheme is coupled with a Cotton Belt F7 as they run to the SP engine terminal.

single roster shot from a set of four matched SD35's being used in LA area "hauler" service at SP Dolores yard Carson, CA

a westbound MP train has just departed Big Spring, TX on the run to El Paso, TX. this crew will take the train 160 miles to the next crew change at Toyah, TX.

Here's morning action at Terminal Tower as seen through the marine layer blanketing the L.A. basin after arrival of The Lark

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It's a beautiful Spring morning in Utah's Salt Lake Valley. What better sight to see today than an original SP AC4400CW leading a UP train across the former Rio Grande? Here SP 343 leads the MNYRO... (more)

Three Katy GP40s switch Taylor, north of the junction with Missouri Pacific, in the evening.

SP Alco RSD-5 at locomotive service facility awaiting its next call to duty

MKT 151A in locomotive service area outside union Station.

Tehachapi Summer. From miles away I hear it coming, nearer ever so nearer. Sound escalating than softening, running through heat rising. It runs by me with whining turbochargers and barking exhaus... (more)

This SP caboose is used in local service on the UP in St. Louis. Here, two men guide the local as it pushes a short string of cars through the Grand Ave. Interlocking.

Classic Southern Pacific! SP F7A 6325 and F7B 8219 (both November 1950 graduates of the EMD La Grange, IL, factory) sit with a caboose at the station in Chatsworth, California, on the SP's Coast ... (more)

An unknown MKT train mail train at Kansas City.

A flurry of activity greets John on his first trip west. To see other views of that trip, click here