A westbound Western Pacific freight with (4) F7's rolling along the Feather River Canyon, California on July 29, 1970. Photo from my slide collection, no photographer listed on slide.

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)

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 folks in Omaha have decided that the Feather River Route calls for C-C power, so nearly new GP40-2 3556 finds itself demoted to local service on a branchline in Kansas. A few miles from its p... (more)

The next to last Western Pacific "California Zephyr" is ready to head West from Salt Lake City.

Four Western Pacific GP40's and a Burlington Northern GP40 on this southbound (timetable westbound) freight on the Highline near Keddie, California on January 09, 1979. No photographer listed on s... (more)

Western Pacific GP40's 3511, 3529 and 3537 westbound at James, California. No photographer listed on slide.

The 805-D is on the point of the westbound California Zephyr as it zooms by at Magna, Utah near Salt Lake City. Photo from my slide collection, photographer's name unknown.

Western Pacific GE U30B's 766, 767, 762 at Portola, California. No photographer listed on slide.

A pair of GP35s lead a westbound WP manifest through El Pinal in October 1974. El Pinal is where the WP crossed SP's Valley Line between Bakersfield and Elvas Tower in Sacramento. In another coupl... (more)

WP 3504 West approaches the lead at Charter Way as it prepares to enter Stockton Yard. No. 3504 wears one of several paint schemes WP tried before settling on the all-orange nose. 3504 was built i... (more)