An eastbound Union Pacific coal train, led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 235, grinds past the Rio Grande Ski Train at Fraser, Colorado, on February 9, 2001. While the skiers are hitting the ... (more)
Eastbound along the Arkansas River during the last year of operation. The last train over Tennessee Pass would run three months later.
With a little help from his out of work passenger friends an SW1500 leads SP's westbound Saugus Local through Glendale.
SMART MoW crews look on as NWP 2009 makes a southbound trip across the relatively new Haystack bascule bridge. The old swing bridge has since been completely removed.
A pair of clean Pullman-Standard commuter cars bring up the rear of a Football Special departing Davenport. The Rock Island owned 20 of these cars, numbered 2700-2719.
For many University of Iowa football games, the Rock Island ran "Football Trains" for fans wanting to see the game. A pair of clean E8's depart Davenport for Iowa City after loading here along 5t... (more)
The passing of this train brought with it the end of an era for Sonoma County railroading, as this was the last train to cross the original Haystack swing bridge. Built by the San Francisco and No... (more)
Southern Pacific's Utah Statehood Centennial train winds its way through Price Canyon on January 3, 1996.
The Southern Pacific Railroad was an iconic line most often associated with places like California and the Sierra Nevada range. For eons, it was the only major Western carrier without direct acces... (more)
Southern Pacific's ROCHM waits for a helper engine to arrive while the TASNC cruises by at Castilla on Dec. 23, 1995.
Some of the last new DC traction locomotives acquired from GE and EMD by the Southern Pacific meet at American Fork, Utah on Jan. 2, 1995.
With a quartet of EMD GP60s for power, SP's hot Oakland to Denver Forwarder snakes through Price Canyon on Sept. 4, 1993.
Eastbound Southern Pacific #8136 rounds the curves of Bealville as it climbs to the top of Tehachapi Pass.
A quartet of SP units leads an intermodal train just south of Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City
A westbound Southern Pacific freight curves through Sandcut, California, after an arduous crossing of the Tehachapi Mountains on the pleasant spring day of March 8, 1996.
