Climbing out of California’s San Joaquin Valley is a Southern Pacific freight with SP SD40T-2 8505, SP SD40 7328, Cotton Belt SD45 8973 and an SD45T-2 providing the muscle to defy gravity and ge... (more)

Intermodal, 1970s Style!

A westbound Southern Pacific intermodal train, full of those "long" 40' containers (two per 89' flat!) has just crossed the Santa Fe's Third District. T... (more)

Rolling along the Missouri River, an eastbound Southern Pacific transfer freight exits the West Bottoms area of Kansas City, Missouri, on the morning of September 16, 1990.

After Southern Pacific mothballed Siskiyou Summit, traffic off the Siskiyou Line had to go north to Eugene to go south into California. A westbound train with rerouted traffic from the Rogue Vall... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific lumber drag crosses Salt Creek in the Cascade Range of Oregon. During winter, the trestle marks the spot on Oregon Highway 58 where motorists chain up for the crossing... (more)

Quite a line-up, indeed! Each day at the July, 2022 "Great Western Steam-Up" at the Nevada State Railroad Museum seemed to feature a new and interesting line-up of locomotives. With 15 ste... (more)

Heading for the loop. With Nevada State Railroad Museum Pilot Barry Simcoe clearing from the gangway, Southern Pacific Locomotive #18 comes off the gallows-style turntable, backing northbou... (more)

Less than ten blocks from the mainline, an extra West Stayton Local heads east through Southeast Salem on the Geer Branch. The track would be leased to the new Willamette Valley Railway at the end... (more)

Former Southern Pacific GP60 #9752 found itself a long, long way from home in this 2004 photograph I made in Catawba, South Carolina. She was being used by CSX at the former Bowater plant in York ... (more)

49 gets towed into position for a charter along the Oregon Pacific in Portland.

A SP jumbo Box car Brings up the rear of a Santa Fe freight at Cosnino In the fall of 1986. I never saw very many of these cars

Southern Pacific GP40-2 7677, built by EMD in March 1980, was photographed on a dark day in American history – September 11. No, not that really dark day in US history, but the one that was a d... (more)

Still sitting on one of Taylor Yard’s turntable whisker tracks some two years after being retried following a wreck in Willowbrook (Compton CA) in mid-1983, Southern Pacific GP9E 3346 (ex-SP GP9... (more)

Bringing up the rear of an eastbound Southern Pacific freight departing West Colton Yard is SP bay-window caboose 4621. Built by Pacific Car & Foundry in 1978, this was one of fifty C-50-7 class ... (more)

An early Morning line up of historical steam engines at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City for the Great Western Steam Up on this 4Th of July weekend.