Over two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, an SP unit with patina leads a southbound manifest through the sagebrush plains of Siskiyou County's Butte Valley.

NS power leads this days ZAILA east of Bertram.

Eastbound local freight rumbles through Hughson Ca.

Between Bertram and Frink out on the Yuma Sub finds UP 6946 leading the ZG4CI.

UP 5704 in new paint leads the westbound ZAILA at El Casco.

A westbound manifest climbs the grade to tunnel 17 near Dorris, California on Southern Pacific's Black Butte Subdivision.

Nearly three years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a solid set of SP power works the Seattle to Los Angeles Z train.

NS power leads the daily ZAILA at El Casco.

Eastbound symbol ZLAAI works up Beaumont Hill behind UP 7131 leading.

UP 6821 brings up the rear of this westbound MFWWC in San Timoteo Canyon.

UP 3057 leads a westbound manifest at El Casco.

A non-clearing eastbound holds up the RoadRailer on a cloudless summer morning in the Butte Valley. Lead unit SP 8626 had been built for Chicago Great Western 30 years earlier.

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