Parked in the middle of the yard, a pair of SP ACs await their next assignment. From here, they could either head toward Fresno, Bakersfield, and Tehachapi Pass. up the East Valley Line toward Ore... (more)

The Swift RoadRailer is about a half hour from Southern Pacific's Brooklyn Yard in southeast Portland, where it will end its run from Southern California.

A lumber drag of Oregon forest products rolls through the Joshua tree forest on the eastern side of Tehachapi.

Three new Southern Pacific AC4400CWs lead a heavy CTRN coal train through the curves at Mitchell, Colorado, climbing the 3 percent grade of Tennessee Pass east out of Minturn on the morning of Aug... (more)

SP 8648 East roars up the Valley Line toward Stockton Tower and the crossing of the Santa Fe. The train is a seemingly endless string of boxcars of various types headed back to the Pacific Northwe... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP40 No. 3079 leads Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr at the station stop at Grand Junction, Colorado, on February 25, 1988. Because of the large length of the Zephyr in this e... (more)

Willamette & Pacific's Toledo Hauler arrives at its namesake, with a leased set of Southern Pacific power.

An eastbound manifest rolls through the Butte Valley, in the shadow of Mount Shasta. The Friendly Southern Pacific has just a little over a year of independence remaining.

GE and EMD Leading an Eastbound freight toward Modesto

A pair of SP C628's prepare to take a transfer run to the L&N over the Huey P Long bridge into New Orleans at East Bridge Junction.

For a brief time in Oregon, locomotives of the mid-20th century and the early 21st century worked side by side. On Labor Day 1994, two brand new SD70Ms cool their heels in the siding at Labish, w... (more)

A pair of SP's U33C's were bracketing one of only two EMD DD35B units on the roster while leading one of SP's meriod of "haulers" that operated in both directions out of SP main Taylor Y... (more)

A four-unit set of Southern Pacific U30Cs (7931, 7915, 7911 and 7905) is in charge of an eastbound freight on December 26, 1972. This train is headed for the railroad's West Colton Yard, and is g... (more)

Southern Pacific's hot PTLAT climbs Sanders Hill near Dorris, California. The grade above the power was part of a shoofly used while adjacent Tunnel 17 was completed. You can see the rear of thi... (more)

A northbound SP train has just come over the top of the Palmer Divide at Palmer Lake, CO, and is beginning the long descent to Denver with an unusual mix of SP and BN power.