Locomotives representing both sides of the Southern Pacific/Union Pacific merger hustle the LA-bound Swift RoadRailer through Cougar, California in summer 1998.

An eastbound Southern Pacific train of lumber empties pulls the 1.4% grade through Cougar, California, helped by a rebuilt SD45 wearing the colors of the failed Santa Fe merger.

SP train number 2, the Sunset Limited, hustles at 40 MPH near Glendale California in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 4-8-8-2 4141 is on the move with forty-eight car First 641 near Redding California in 1938. Otto's speed estimate on this westbound freight was 45 MPH. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 4-6-2 2447 and SP 4-6-0 2376 are in charge of SP train 72 at San Luis Obispo California in 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 8982 waits to proceed West in the former Nickel Plate Road yard at Hobart Indiana in 1978.

EMC SW1 SP 1000 is seen working at Oakland California in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP train 26, The Owl, is at Glendale California in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP train 70, The Coaster, is on the move near Glendale California at 40 MPH, with 13 cars, in 1940. Otto's trusty 1935 Ford V-8 sedan is visible at left. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collectio... (more)

The Napa garbage loads roll northbound on the Shasta Route in the summer of 1999.

SP 4449 has arrived in Wenatchee, WA with the American Freedom Train in early November 1975. The engine has been placed at the locomotive facilities for fuel/water before continuing west over Stev... (more)

An eastbound with a varied consist just north of Picacho.

The Coolidge Turn is diverging from the Sunset Line and is heading north to Coolidge.

A westbound splits a pair of searchlight signals just west of Shawmut on a warm summer afternoon. The MKT 635 unit adds some color.

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)