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.

Late on a summer evening, an eastbound heads for Oregon over the west flank of Mt. Shasta.

An SD9 in the shadow of Mt. Shasta awaits its next call to duty.

Ex SP B30-7 sits awaiting it's fate in the small town of South Fork, CO, 47 miles west of Alamosa on the old D&RGW Creed Branch.

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)

The Niles Canyon Railway yard in Brightside, Ca. With it's panoply of engines, one can still feel what it was like to work with one of those horses.

A quartet of grimy Southern Pacific SDs roll through the Devil's Garden. This area is a lava flow created by eruptions of nearby Mount Shasta.

SP 4449 is parked for display at Seattle's King St. Station after arriving with the American Freedom Train. The train would be opened for visitation before the train would continue south to Portla... (more)

Locomotives representing both sides of the Southern Pacific/Union Pacific merger hustle the LA-bound Swift RoadRailer through Cougar, California in summer 1998.

An eastbound Southern Pacific train of lumber empties pulls the 1.4% grade through Cougar, California, helped by a rebuilt SD45 wearing the colors of the failed Santa Fe merger.

SP train number 2, the Sunset Limited, hustles at 40 MPH near Glendale California in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 4-8-8-2 4141 is on the move with forty-eight car First 641 near Redding California in 1938. Otto's speed estimate on this westbound freight was 45 MPH. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 4-6-2 2447 and SP 4-6-0 2376 are in charge of SP train 72 at San Luis Obispo California in 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 8982 waits to proceed West in the former Nickel Plate Road yard at Hobart Indiana in 1978.