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.

SP 8307 eases a Westbound manifest around the horseshoe curve at Caliente.

Southern Pacific imagery on the Modoc Line at Wendel.

SP 4110 is street running with a twelve car Tehachapi, Southern Pacific train 56, in tow at 15 MPH, in 1937. Otto C. Perry photo, from my collection.

The crew on this westbound transfer, hauling cars from the Southern Pacific's Colton Yard to the then-still-fairly-new West Colton Yard, look pretty relaxed as they wait for a Santa Fe westbound t... (more)

SP 9738 leads GTW train 170 onto the single track at Emmons Street, on the north side of Wyandotte, MI. The engineer watches the track ahead as the conductor keeps an eye on his train in the mirro... (more)

A pair of Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs lead an eastbound Union Pacific coal train downgrade and across a wood trestle over Boulder Creek out of Tolland, Colorado. You wouldn’t know it from the ... (more)

SP 8307 leads a westbound manifest at Bealville.

A westbound manifest, lead by two EMDX lease service SD70M's crosses the Tehachapi Creek at Woodford.

Rounding the famed Tehachapi Loop, albeit on the 4800’ long Walong Siding, this Southern Pacific eastbound freight train has another ten miles until it crests the summit of the crossing of the T... (more)