The beautiful, rear-end observation car DLMX 2955 is seen on the point of the shove of this edition of the Holiday Express as SP 4449 shoves the train along the Willamette River and a string of st... (more)

SP 4449, a 1941-built product of the Lima Locomotive Works, is still able to bring Portland to a stand still as the 80-year locomotive puts on a show of steam power as it departs the Oregon Rail H... (more)

As Southern Pacific C415s 2409 and 2405 are bringing a freight out of Anaheim, they meet SP SW8 1123 and its C-40-3 class cupola caboose some five miles into their trip to City of Industry*. (Bue... (more)

Six months after Union Pacific took over the Southern Pacific, this southbound train on the Redding Trestle belies any change.

Southern Pacific three-foot narrow gauge 4-6-0 No. 18 rests in the Durango, Colorado, roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad on August 30, 2021. The Mogul is being leased for ... (more)

Southern Pacific's Redding Turn is parked at Redding on a clear winter Sunday afternoon.

On a clear winter afternoon, a westbound train on the Shasta Route heads for Roseville. After rebuilding at Sacramento, lead unit SP 6768 was briefly SP 9501. It was renumbered for the proposed S... (more)

A manifest heads south on the Shasta Route, crossing the Salt Creek Arm of Lake Shasta.

The 0900 Silverton Steam Train is pulling out of Hermosa after adding Southern Pacific 18, which will serve as the helper engine to Silverton. The oil-fired No. 18 was restored by the Carson & Col... (more)

Southern Pacific 18 is the helper engine on today's 0900 Silverton Train, seen here heading upgrade out of Hermosa.

Ten-year-old Southern Pacific 7201 lays over at the railroad's Dolores Yard. Built by EMD in February 1978, this GP40X originally featured "elephant ears" over its flared radiators in o... (more)

Nothing says "The '70s" like Alco C415s on the Southern Pacific, and Ford Pintos! Spending the night at Anaheim Junction on a clear April 1973 evening is SP 2404, one of ten center-cab ... (more)

The Southern Pacific Railroad was an official sponsor of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. As such, they promoted the Games with a special paint scheme applied to SD40R 73... (more)

Southern Pacific 8832 leads two more SP and two Norfolk & Western engines into West Colton yard, while another freight, with SP 8710, waits for the train to clear so it can go through the switches... (more)