Restored 1921-built Southern Pacific 4-6-2 P-8 2472 skirts the Pacific Ocean as pulls a passenger excursion, the Pacific Shore Limited, utilizing Rio Grande Ski Train coaches and a former P... (more)

After a long trip across Canada on The Canadian, our first stop back in the US was at Edmonds, WA on BNSF's Scenic Subdivision. As soon as we arrived we were greeted by a crowd of people l... (more)

Southern Pacific's Marlboro Local was down to just one car as it headed east down Anaheim’s Santa Ana Street on a gloomy April day. But, this job's day is just beginning, and there will be cars... (more)

The sun tries to break through on a snowy morning in the mountains of Colorado as Union Pacific’s Denver to Grand Junction freight, led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 149, rumbles through C... (more)

Delivered in November 1939 as part of Southern Pacific's third order for diesels, SP 1006 was rescued from a steel scrapyard some time in the late 80s or very early 90s. She has been loving restor... (more)

The 4PM museum train has very recently reached the northern end of its run, at 7th Street, and is now shoving south back to SCRM. Photo taken south of the 11th Street Crossing. Consist is an SP SW... (more)

Although this is listed as an EMD SW1, it's really an EMC SW1, from before EMC was purchased by GM. Beautifully restored by the folks at SCRM, SP 1006 has just shoved its train to the end of track... (more)

An SP U25B shoves the Southern California Railway Museum train back to the station.

A few weeks before the trackage was leased to the Willamette Valley Railway, an extra West Stayton Turn rolls east on the Geer Branch. This line through the suburbs of the state capital is now aba... (more)

Southern Pacific’s Bicentennial caboose, SP 1776, brings up the rear of a westbound freight at Hiland, the summit of SP’s crossing of Cajon Pass. Built in December 1966, this car was repainte... (more)

Bringing up the markers on an eastbound Southern Pacific hauler, heading from Los Angeles' Taylor Yard to West Colton Yard, is C-40-1 caboose 1020. This caboose was built at the SP's Los Angeles ... (more)

Southern Pacific SD7 1427, built in August 1953, is the former SP 2727, originally SP 5320. While no longer used in passenger service, the engine still has a water tank (which is missing its cap)... (more)

A Union Pacific westbound freight, lead by a pair of former Southern Pacific SD40-2M diesels rebuilt by M-K from SD45s, passes through El Casco, the name for the crossover in Redlands, on Beaumont... (more)

In the Nineties, the Southern Pacific was beginning to change – Rio Grande-style "Speed Lettering" was showing up on repaints and new power thanks to new ownership, wide-nosed safety c... (more)

An SP local with unrebuilt units is working the interchange. The diminutive TXTC unit could only push 2-3 cars up the tracks to SP which necessitated several runs daily, on no particular schedule.