A very spectacular sight, 4449 steams upgrade over the Flathead's middle fork on a beautiful summer day.

California Poppies are in bloom while SP 2472 keeps chugging towards Sunol leading the Spring Specials.

4449 brings a little color to the otherwise drab bluffs at Hoffman Avenue in St. Paul.

SP 4449 highballs the Heartland.

Southern Pacific 4449 rolls off the miles where the Hiawathas used to roam, along the Mississippi River near Lake City.

A SP train exercise their trackage rights over the Rock.

Photo by Ron Thur from my collection.

Portrait of a failed experiment. Running with borrowed BN Locotrol equipped SD-40-2s and SP mid train units controlled through a BN Locotrol receiver car trains were something to see for a few we... (more)

Eastbound inbound, filthy locomotive.

I believe this is the only shot I have of a unit attached to an ex-Trainmaster brake trailer.

For my 1000th image accepted on Railpictures.net, I have uploaded a photo of a place I have held dear since I was a young kid. On a bright spring morning in 2006, I was on hand to catch the Rio Gr... (more)

History lives. Where the NYC's famous streamlined Hudsons once tread, SP 4449 rolls past BO Tower, one of the last few active interlocking towers in the state of Michigan. The engine is enroute to... (more)

The railfan gods answered yesterday with a short lived sucker hole of sun just as SP 4449 passed under one of the old wooden bridges just east of Hawley. Most of MN had heavy cloud cover for most... (more)

SP 4449 makes her way through former Great Northern territory under beautiful blue skies on a holiday weekend en route to points East.