A Southern Pacific Railroad freight prepares to depart the railroad’s West Colton Yard late in the day. SP SD45T-2 9340, SD45 8956, SD45T-2 9228 and SD40 8443 will have the honors of lifting th... (more)

During GGRM’s open house over Labor Day weekend, Southern Pacific P-8 class 2472, built in March of 1921, does a quick blowdown for the crowd.

A pair of GP60s, one Southern Pacific and the other a very weathered Cotton Belt, lead Conrail TV-556 through the interlocking at CP7 on the River Line. TV-556 was the train to catch at th... (more)

On the "Sunset Route".

SP 7345 is in run 8 as it works eastbound uphill through San Timoteo Canyon. There are many reverse curve in the canyon, making for slow speeds for heavy eastbound trains.

SP 8266 leads an eastbound doublestack through San Timoteo Canyon as it crossed the San Timoteo Canyon Road. It looks like the conductor has taped some newspaper on his side of the windshield t... (more)

SP 8266, along with an SD-45 and three more tunnel motors, leads an eastbound doublestack through San Timoteo Canyon near the El Casco Lakes. It looks like the conductor has taped some newspaper ... (more)

On the "Sunset Route".

SD45R # 7532 of the Southern Pacific leaving the short tunnel # 9 in the loop of the Tehachapi pass.

SP MW 325 is one of five Maintenance of Way Flangers on a westbound manifest train pulling into Roseville yard.

Following a crew change, an eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line departs Wendel. Southern Pacific had less than four weeks of independence remaining.

Southern Pacific EMD GP9 No. 3392 pauses between tasks on a local freight at Stockton, California, on March 6, 1994. Built as SP No. 5653 in March 1956, it still retains much of the look of a sta... (more)

In January 1997, flooding in the Feather and Sacramento River Canyons compelled Union Pacific to detour numerous trains on the Modoc Line for a couple of weeks. A westbound detour train is seen de... (more)

With the Warner Mountains for a backdrop, an eastbound manifest on the Modoc Line exits Indian Camp Loop. Earlier in the month, Modoc trackage between Alturas and Wendel had been reactivated follo... (more)

The railroad that never was - a westbound lead by a tunnel motor wearing the SPSF scheme is about to pass the only caboose Southern Pacific painted for the never-consummated merger.