A set of Southern Pacific power makes a move at the west switch of Mount Hebron siding. This location is on the Black Butte Subdivision between Klamath Falls and Dunsmuir.

A Southern Pacific freight heads east along the "beautiful" Los Angeles River on the Union Pacific's Los Angeles Sub, which it uses to head south ("railroad east") through this part of downtown Lo... (more)

After 22 miles of downgrade from the summit near Grass Lake siding, this eastbound intermodal train has hit the Butte Valley floor at Mount Hebron. At the time, doublestacks on the Shasta Route we... (more)

Over two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, an SP unit with patina leads a southbound manifest through the sagebrush plains of Siskiyou County's Butte Valley.

Nearly three years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a solid set of SP power works the Seattle to Los Angeles Z train.

A non-clearing eastbound holds up the RoadRailer on a cloudless summer morning in the Butte Valley. Lead unit SP 8626 had been built for Chicago Great Western 30 years earlier.

Grimy but still SP
On the morning of April 23, 2002, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train heads downgrade at mile 22.6 at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Clay, Col... (more)

Southern Pacific train 51, the San Joaquin, is seen at Bakersfield California in 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 290 leads a Wisconsin Central intermodal hotshot train north approaching Marsh siding at the County Highway D crossing located between Slinger and Theresa Station, WI. WC developed this service... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

In 1976 SP borrowed some BN Locotrol Masters and slave cars in an early effort to institute unmanned helpers. The only testing I saw was on Beaumont Hill. Evidently it didn't work out. No compl... (more)

Imagine my surprise when during a furtive little drive and a "hardy hi you silver" found this beast sitting, waiting for its run. Got him on the road and the sun was great, but on the wrong side... (more)

Now at Larry's Truck the SP 2641 was Brand New and shiny in 1972. The now rusty and picked over SW 1500 sports LTEX reporting markings and the paint is nearly gone but the Southern Pacific Lineage... (more)

Yes, this is Bliss just outside the fence at the Fort. I hope you've been to Bliss somewhere else 'cause this one ain't so much. WB mixed freight.

A trainload of empty garbage containers heads south on the Shasta Route. The train was operated from Roosevelt, Washington by BNSF. Union Pacific will take the train to Suisun-Fairfield, where it ... (more)