SP 9 waits at the Owenyo trainorder office for its last orders. It had been filling in while diesel SP 1 was in the Bakersfield shops, but the diesel is back from the shops and soon will take ove... (more)

SP 9 makes the last steam run on the SP narrow gauge, from Owenyo to Keeler and return. It was retained as a backup for the single diesel on the line, and that morning the diesel returned on a (st... (more)

Moving museum pieces. With the exception of the museum's Brill Motor Car, all of the other pieces of railroad equipment at California's Laws Museum are normally static displays. Many of t... (more)

An excursion on Southern Pacific's Owens Valley narrow gauge line departs Laws on a fall afternoon in 1955. Today, SP locomotive 9 is on display at the Laws Railroad Museum. This image was recorde... (more)

On its last day in service SP 9 heads south to Keeler from Owenyo on the Southern Pacific's narrow gauge Owens Valley line. SP 9 was handling the chores while SP 1, a GE 70-tonner was at Bakersfi... (more)

In another old restored Anscochrome, SP narrow gauge 4-6-0 No. 9 heads to Keeler on the very last regular use of steam on the entire SP system. Like an earlier picture of an ex-UP 0-6-0, this mod... (more)