Union Pacific E9 #932 passing Mission Tower as it arrives at LAUPT with the "City of Los Angeles"

Union Pacific E9 #932 has arrived with the "City of Los Angeles" at LAUPT while on an adjacent track, ATSF #39C is ready to leave with a "San Diegan".

SP 6462 began life as Cotton Belt 320 in Daylight paint. The unit came West when SSW dropped passenger service. The unit lacked dynamics and had a standard pilot instead of an SP plow and spent mo... (more)

Stopped at SP's Cahill St. depot in San Jose, SP #6456, along with #3009, is ready to take train #98, the Coast Daylight, to Los Angeles. Part of the consist is made up of Sunset equipment being d... (more)

The thrice weekly remnant of the California Zephyr continued to operate on the Rio Grande for 12 years after the WP dropped theirs in 1970. Seen here, the train is climbing to Soldier Summit and i... (more)

At one time, Blue Canon was a crew change point on SP's Donner Pass line. The original compound Mallet's could take as long as 12 hours to reach here from Roseville. Today, other than the large h... (more)

F40 #214 has just arrived in San Diego and it, along with the first coach, have cut away from the train. A second F40 on the rear will take the train back to Los Angeles with the former Metroliner... (more)

Spring of 1985 was a time of transition on for Peninsula Commute Service. The new F40's were arriving and being put in service but pulling the old SP coaches and were working alongside some of the... (more)

Amtrak FP7 #122, formerly SP #6459, has Amtrak's "San Joaquin" in tow as it enters the connector track from the SP to the Santa Fe at Port Chicago. The overhead in the background carried the rails... (more)

SP 4840, set up for snow service on flangers and spreaders, is leading a freight Westbound out of Truckee. Seven locomotives make up the lashup--the two GP38's, a GP60, SD45, SD45T2, another SD45 ... (more)

At Curtis, MCR #38 is on the way back to McCloud with loads from both the Sierra Pacific Mill in Burney and from Dicalite at Cayton. Due to track conditions, the run from Burney to McCloud had bec... (more)

In June of 2005, there was still enough outbound loads to require two units on the "hill job" from McCloud to Mt. Shasta City. SD38's #37 and 36 are on the tail track of the Signal Butte switchbac... (more)

On its way back to McCloud from the Sierra Pacific mill in Burney, McCloud 38 is passing the now derelict tower at Bartle. It is August of 2005 and less than a year remains until this part of the ... (more)

With the now gone Stockton Tower in the background, SP SD40T2 #8279 bangs across the Santa Fe in September of 1995.

Almost 40 years after it was built, SP GP9 #3852 is still at work for its owner, Southern Pacific. It is busy switching the industrial park on the South end of Lathrop, CA.