WP 3068 leads a long freight up the hill at Altamont.

A solid set of Western Pacific power heads west over the Keddie Wye bridge in the Feather River Canyon.

Amtrak's westbound Feather River Express drifts across Rock Creek on the homeward leg of the 2011 Portola Railroad Days excursion. On this day the heartbeat of the Feather River Route's former own... (more)

WP 3551 and UP 1226 sit in the UP East Los Angeles yard on another hazy day. Back in those days, the word "smog" could be easily be used instead of the "hazy". Photo taken wi... (more)

WP 3532 is painted in UP Armor Yellow, but has Western Pacific on the side. It is the 4th of July, and I came across this unusual locomotive in the diesel service area in the UP East Los Angeles ... (more)

The engineer on the WP 3546 west is slowly coming down through the Virgilia siding due to a bad order car, which they will set out on the siding. A group of us got together for a "senior trip... (more)

WP 2261 has tied on to the end of a train to do more switching in the Winnemucca yard. The crew asked me if I would like to go for a ride with them as they switched around the yard. Next thing I... (more)

WP 3423 west slows down to let crew members on and off of the caboose, while the crew on WP 2261 wait to go back into the yard to do more switching.

Western Pacific 918D takes a stroll passing the Farewell bridge, and it's a quiet afternoon as the Nathan M5R24 sounds of the cab locomotive echoes through Niles Canyon. Photo, a property of Gu... (more)

With a relief crew aboard and wasting no time, Union Pacific train ILXG4X-22 with the Western Pacific Railroad heritage loco, SD70ACe 1983, is North-bound at Broadwell, Illinois on the former A... (more)

Glorious early August late afternoon photographing and having an adventure of chasing the Western Pacific excursion, hosted by the Niles Canyon Railway. One of the preserved WP locomotives, WP 713... (more)

In October 1973, two EMDs idles next to each other modeling two variations of Western Pacific's paint schemes. No. 3010's scheme was an attempt to raise the profile of the railroad by putting its ... (more)

About a month before it was absorbed by UP, power of various kinds idles in front of Western Pacific's shops in Stockton. A good portion of the power you see here will be gone or in a deadline onc... (more)

The engineer on the WP 3546 west is slowly coming down the Virgilia siding due to a bad order car, which they will set out on siding. Another railfan is busy taking a movie as the train approache... (more)

After graduating from high school, friends and I drove up to Northern California to photograph the Western Pacific in Stockton and the Feather River Canyon. WP employees told us we may want to wai... (more)