It wasn't unusual for new SP power to pass through Silvis on it's way west. This GP40X caught my eye one day as I was headed home from work at the Silvis shop. I had my camera with me however the... (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)

Emerging from the wooden snowshed at Norden.

As the dreaded Y2K approaches, a Union Pacific intermodal train heads east away from civilization, which will collapse into chaos just two days hence! Southern Pacific SD40M-2 8666 leads this tra... (more)

The westbound UP "dirt train" has paused at Wash (just east of Wellington, UT) to pick up a single empty hopper from the small, mostly unused yard there. I assume this was a bad order c... (more)

After Union Pacific closed Colorado’s Tennessee Pass as a through route on August 23, 1997, it still operated a one-a-week local from Pueblo to Malta, near Leadville for about eighteen months. O... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific freight crosses the Arkansas River just west of Princeton, Colorado, as it descends the eastern grade of Tennessee Pass on August 2, 1996.

On the afternoon of March 19, 1997, an eastbound freight drops downgrade out of Plainview, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s newly acquired Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. The train is powered by a pair o... (more)

The inaugural 2019 Holiday Train steams past the Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge in southeast Portland.

Running nearly an hour early, "The Sunset" is stopped at Lafayette.

A trio of former Southern Pacific tunnel motors lead a KYLE train across the desolate Kansas landscape.

On a hot, muggy August day, Southern Pacific SD45R 7406 brings an intermodal train into Tucumcari, New Mexico. Tucumcari used to be the interchange between the SP and the Rock Island. When the R... (more)

Power for SP's Willamina Local heads up the spur to Willamina Lumber Company so it can switch out the plant. A log truck on Main Street is taking another load of raw material to the mill.

A westbound SP drag with a nice mix of power meets the northbound Coast Starlight in Portland's southeast suburbs.

Late at night, SP GP60 No. 9794 sits in frigid snowfall at UP's Burnham Yard in Denver.