GP60 9785 leads SD70Ms 9810 and 9809.

Southern Pacific trains meet on the Shasta Route at Upton siding during August 1988.

With a storm brewing over the Trinity Alps, a pair of ex-Southern Pacific SD70Ms depart Black Butte with a manifest, heading for Oregon.

Over a year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, it was still possible to capture images of Espee on the Shasta Route.

In 1987-1988, Southern Pacific closed the Modoc Line to through traffic. If the Modoc had been open, this EURGM would have been closing in on Alturas. Instead, the train is crossing Dry Canyon Via... (more)

Westbound in the morning.

The Blue Streak westbound in the late afternoon.

The Coolidge Turn is diverging from the Sunset Line and is heading north to Coolidge.

The engineer widens out the throttle after getting a high green as an eastbound gets into the clear.

A westbound splits a pair of searchlight signals just west of Shawmut on a warm summer afternoon. The MKT 635 unit adds some color.

Almost two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, the Swift RoadRailer heads for Southern California.

Over two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a northbound intermodal train passes Mount Shasta with a solid set of Espee power.

A westbound Southern Pacific manifest slows to take siding for Amtrak 14 at Grass Lake.

Daily Mulberry, FL-New Orleans, LA mixed with the traditional runthru power from SP. This tradition continued into the UP years, but eventually the train routing was changed and replaced with ano... (more)

Over two and a half years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, there was still a fair amount of SP power on the Shasta Route. Led by one of the 25 SD70Ms SP acquired in 1994, a southboun... (more)