A late afternoon eastbound at Shawmut.

The engineer is widening out the throttle after getting a clear signal at Picacho heading east towards Tucson.

SP 4-8-8-2 4187 leads a westbound freight past the Caboose Cafe, in Los Angeles California, on August 2nd 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Late afternoon in Laws. Southern Pacific 10-wheeler #18 sits at the south end of the little railroad yard in Laws, California, at the end of a sparking March day, awaiting her next call to ... (more)

The "Pink Hour" at Laws. Between first light and the first appearance of the morning sun over the mountains to the east, the Owens Valley experiences an interesting optical phenom... (more)

SP 9793 leads an interesting consist that includes an Amtrak F40PH and a Montana Rail Link SD40. The train is headed south on Union Pacific's Lufkin Sub in Shepherd. A little over a year had pas... (more)

Conrail TV-556 gets underway after a crew change at Selkirk Yard. Southern Pacific power was common on this once-per-week double stack train, but the trailing Santa Fe B36-7 was a nice bonus on a... (more)

A pair of year old Southern Pacific AC4400WCs leads a westbound freight downgrade around Tehachapi Loop. The cleanliness of the GEs and a lack of graffiti on the freight cars dates this photo.

SP 7851 leads a northbound at Valley Jct. in Sauget, IL on Union Pacific's Chester Sub. This Southern Pacific train, which consisted of a little bit of everything (intermodal, auto-racks, manifes... (more)

A pair of Southern Pacific AC4400s send a bit of smoke skyward while exiting the east end of the passing siding at Avondale, CO on BNSF's Pueblo Sub. In another 10 or so miles this loaded coal tr... (more)

As one of Southern Pacific's "Haulers" heads west out of the railroad's West Colton Yard, it stops on the main at Pomona so the crew on it can converse with the crew on SP 3802 east (an ... (more)

BN power pulling Wyoming coal on the SP for delivery to the hungry power plants near San Antonio.

Westbound train with foreign power is tiptoeing thru the daisies. No tulips.

Close enough...The Southern Pacific (Northwestern Pacific) and its successors were doomed from the start in Humboldt County, California. The main reason none of these railroads could ever be profi... (more)

This beautiful 4-6-2, number 631, was built in June 1928 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, for the Southern Pacific Railroad. According to the specifications listed on th... (more)