A westbound Southern Pacific piggyback train passes Redwood Jct. Tower sometime in the 1950s. This image on SP's San Francisco Subdivision was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.
Imagine it's 1960. The Southern Pacific narrow gauge is on its last legs, so you decide to go photograph it on Washington's birthday. You're going to drive to the Owens Valley and chase the train ... (more)
On the morning of July 26, 1996, a Southern Pacific coal train passes through the Missouri Pacific signals on the west side of the town of Haswell, Colorado. SP used the Rio Grande route over Tenn... (more)
When my father had business trips to the Bay area in the 1960s, one of his favorite spots was Pinole, where both the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific skirted San Francisco Bay. Here a GP9 still ... (more)
A westbound Rio Grande freight led by EMD SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motor” No. 5370, passes the site of Keeldar siding on the eastern approach to Tennessee Pass near Leadville on May 24, 1991. A sparkli... (more)