Conrail TV-556 gets underway after a crew change at Selkirk Yard. Southern Pacific power was common on this once-per-week double stack train, but the trailing Santa Fe B36-7 was a nice bonus on a... (more)
A pair of year old Southern Pacific AC4400WCs leads a westbound freight downgrade around Tehachapi Loop. The cleanliness of the GEs and a lack of graffiti on the freight cars dates this photo.
SP 7851 leads a northbound at Valley Jct. in Sauget, IL on Union Pacific's Chester Sub. This Southern Pacific train, which consisted of a little bit of everything (intermodal, auto-racks, manifes... (more)
A pair of Southern Pacific AC4400s send a bit of smoke skyward while exiting the east end of the passing siding at Avondale, CO on BNSF's Pueblo Sub. In another 10 or so miles this loaded coal tr... (more)
As one of Southern Pacific's "Haulers" heads west out of the railroad's West Colton Yard, it stops on the main at Pomona so the crew on it can converse with the crew on SP 3802 east (an ... (more)
BN power pulling Wyoming coal on the SP for delivery to the hungry power plants near San Antonio.
Westbound train with foreign power is tiptoeing thru the daisies. No tulips.
Close enough...The Southern Pacific (Northwestern Pacific) and its successors were doomed from the start in Humboldt County, California. The main reason none of these railroads could ever be profi... (more)
This beautiful 4-6-2, number 631, was built in June 1928 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, for the Southern Pacific Railroad. According to the specifications listed on th... (more)
A rare Geneva Utah bound taconite load with 3 SP GE's and a mix of hoppers. I believe these were symbolled something like ST815.
SP power brings a BN manifest train from Superior WI on the Hinckley Subdivision to Northtown.
With the grungiest looking motor on the point, a SP double stack train heads into the sunset.
A SP and Rio Grande unit lead an empty taconite train from Geneva Steel.
A former SP FM H12-44 rests at a locomotive dealer near El Paso in the spring of 1979 Note the old as delivered Barrel Headlights
Night moves. The crew of Southern Pacific Locomotive #18 stops to confer with their colleagues on SP Locomotive #9, as their two freights pass each other in the yard at Laws, California. <... (more)
