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 for about eighteen months. On ... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific freight crosses the Arkansas River just west of Princeton, Colorado, as it descends the eastern grade of Tennessee Pass on August 2, 1996.

On the afternoon of March 19, 1997, an eastbound freight drops downgrade out of Plainview, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s newly acquired Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. The train is powered by a pair of ... (more)

The inaugural 2019 Holiday Train steams past the Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge in southeast Portland.

Running nearly an hour early, "The Sunset" is stopped at Lafayette.

On a hot, muggy August day, Southern Pacific SD45R 7406 brings an intermodal train into Tucumcari, New Mexico. Tucumcari used to be the interchange between the SP and the Rock Island. When the R... (more)

Power for SP's Willamina Local heads up the spur to Willamina Lumber Company so it can switch out the plant. A log truck on Main Street is taking another load of raw material to the mill.

A westbound SP drag with a nice mix of power meets the northbound Coast Starlight in Portland's southeast suburbs.

Late at night, SP GP60 No. 9794 sits in frigid snowfall at UP's Burnham Yard in Denver.

Southern Pacific 8028 leads an eastbound intermodal train out of the Tucson yard.

SP 1606 slug, along with SP 7942 and SP 7858 at the diesel service area in the Tucson yard. Photo taken with permission.

Parked in the middle of the yard, a pair of SP ACs await their next assignment. From here, they could either head toward Fresno, Bakersfield, and Tehachapi Pass. up the East Valley Line toward Ore... (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.

A lumber drag of Oregon forest products rolls through the Joshua tree forest on the eastern side of Tehachapi.

Three new Southern Pacific AC4400CWs lead a heavy CTRN coal train through the curves at Mitchell, Colorado, climbing the 3 percent grade of Tennessee Pass east out of Minturn on the morning of Aug... (more)