Best laid plans... I assumed incorrectly that this train was headed out UP's Kansas Pacific main, so I positioned myself to catch the two WP GP40-2s - recently demoted from the Feather River main... (more)
Founded in 1903 as a way to give the powerhouse Southern Pacific railroad competition into northern California, the Western Pacific was built to connect the Rio Grande railroad in Utah with the Sa... (more)
Santa Fe F7A 347C and F7B unit in Old Sacramento, at the California State Railroad Museum. July 13, 1990.
On one of my father's business trips, he lensed this view of a WP southbound hitting the SP diamond at Niles Tower in Fremont, California in the very last rays of daylight. R.T. Steinbrenner ... (more)
On June 9, 1966, the westbound train 19 "The Chief" arrives at Trinidad, Colorado behind F7A #21, F7A #327 and three F7B's. Photo from my collection. Photographer K. Crist.
Warbonnet leaser. PRLX 201 (an SD75M built for the ATSF in 1995) is the surprising leader on CN 327 (with CSXT 5323 & CSXT 45 trailing), as these units rarely lead in Canada. Also somewhat ... (more)
CN 2114 & CN 2512 are in charge of CN 377 as it passes MP 14 of the Kingston Sub.
In May 1973, Western Pacific's MW37 a big Industrial Brownhoist railroad crane, sits in the yard at Oroville awaiting its next assignment on the railroad. The most likely spot it'll be needed is t... (more)
Santa Fe’s all-Pullman Super Chief winds around the horseshoe curve at Blanchard, N.M. en route to its climb over Raton Pass to get out of New Mexico and dash on to Chicago. Five F units were l... (more)
Train 1, The San Francisco Chief A Roger Puta Photograph
Train 23, The Grand Canyon A Roger Puta Photograph
WP NW2 No. 608 sits on the turntable tracks next to Tidewater Southern Alco RS1 No. 746. No. 608 is now on display in restored paint at the Portola Railroad Museum.
WP GP35s idle at the railroad's engine facility in Stockton.
A Western Pacific SW9 return to the yard with a transfer from the Santa Fe.
At sunset, a bay window caboose punctuates the end of an eastbound Western Pacific manifest.
