Cotton Belt GP60 teams with UP C41-8W and tunnel motor to drag a northbound up the grade through downtown Opelika.

Appearances can be deceiving. After a derailment near Toledo was blamed on leased SD9s, Willamette & Pacific borrowed a set of Southern Pacific GP40s and slugs for its Toledo Hauler until its ex-A... (more)

The old Southern Pacific station of Surf is aptly named, as it lies right on the beach in Santa Barbara County, within Vandenberg Air Force Base. There is also an unstaffed Amtrak Station. Being... (more)

The Swift RoadRailer is about a half hour from Southern Pacific's Brooklyn Yard in southeast Portland, where it will end its run from Southern California.

Willamette & Pacific's Toledo Hauler arrives at its namesake, with a leased set of Southern Pacific power.

GE and EMD Leading an Eastbound freight toward Modesto

Power off the EURBL has cut off its train and is parked in front of the depot at Roseburg. During the late 80s/early 90s, Southern Pacific routinely ran a Eugene-Roseburg train down the Siskiyou ... (more)

The engine terminal on the Siskiyou Line at Ashland, Oregon was a great place to see big SP road units. On a late summer evening, a pair of tunnel motors rest before their next trip over the Sisk... (more)

Thanks to some mechanical ailment, the tunnel motor leading this westbound lumber drag is putting out a plume of smoke worthy of a steam locomotive. There was once a siding here named Jerome.

The peace of a summer evening is shattered by an eastbound drag of lumber empties on the Shasta Route. This train has completed the climb out of the Sacramento River Canyon and is now closing in ... (more)

SSW GP40 7607, SSW GP20 4435, SP GP35 and SP GP9 at St. Louis, Missouri. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer's name on slide.

A train of lumber off the Siskiyou Line crosses the massive trestle at Redding. In 1986, the only paint on the equipment was applied by either the manufacturer or the owner.

For a year-and-a-half after Union Pacific closed Colorado’s Tennessee Pass as a through route on August 23, 1997, it still operated a one-a-week local from Pueblo to Malta, near Leadville. On Ap... (more)

An unusual seven units were leading SP's "Oil cans" eastbound through Acton, CA

Crossing the Arkansas River on a through truss bridge is an eastbound Southern Pacific freight led by Cotton Belt EMD SD45T-2 No. 6890 on July 16, 1990, while crossing the former Rio Grande Tennes... (more)