A Southern Pacific tunnel motor rests in the late afternoon sun at Mojave.

Southern Pacific E9A #6051 takes up the rear on the California State Railroad Museum's Polar Express excursion with Santa Fe F7A #347C in the background welcoming passengers.

Built by the American Locomotive Company in June 1955 as Southern Pacific 1050, this T-6 locomotive was renumbered 1217 in 1965. With 82 on the roster, SP owned more ALCO S-6 locomotives than any... (more)

Southern Pacific train number 4 is seen at San Diego California on April 23rd 1933. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A Southern Pacific freight is seen near Cougar California, with snowcapped Mount Shasta visible in the background, on July 26th 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Nearly seven years after receiving the red and yellow colors of the proposed Southern Pacific Santa Fe merger, Southern Pacific SD45R 7564 is showing some wear and tear when found in Dolores Yard ... (more)

Aside from the loaded ballast cars on the head end, this westbound train on the Modoc Line is virtually all empty boxcars and flatcars returning to Oregon for another load of forest products. This... (more)

An eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line is about to make a 180 degree change in direction at Indian Camp Loop. This train is around five miles into the climb from Likely to Sage Hen.

This odd structure once stood at Sage Hen on the Modoc Line. Not long after Rio Grande Industries acquired Southern Pacific in fall 1988, an eastbound passes the shack.

An eastbound train on the Modoc Line has arrived at Wendel, where the midtrain helpers will be set out. Southern Pacific had less than a month of independence remaining.

Southern Pacific GP9 3403 (ex-SP subsidiary Texas & New Orleans 403) and GP9E 3370 (ex-SP GP9 3556, née-TNO 434) back into an industrial complex to drop off some box cars as SP's Huntington Be... (more)

A westbound SP merchandise freight passes under the MO 994.0 cantilever signal at Winot, AZ near sunset. Photographer: Emery Gulash. John E. Troxler collection. Kodachrome slide.

EMD 645s and smoke belching tunnels. Exhaust erupts from Tunnel 5 as the mid-train helpers provide 12,000 horsepower to assist the daily "Oil Can" train as it struggles upgrade through ... (more)

SP 8588, a wreck victim from a collision on Cajon Pass, sits quietly in the dead line at Oxnard.

With a friendly wave from the Conductor, EMDX 7021 rolls through Caliente.