New SP GP40P-2 3197 leads bi-levels on commuter train #112 near San Francisco, CA in 1976. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

SP GP9s 3700 and 3742 lead a local underneath the Tunnel Avenue bridge in Brisbane, CA on the Bayshore Cutoff near San Francisco in August 1973. If I'm not mistaken, the truck passing over the br... (more)

If I had to choose my favorite EMD locomotives it might be these.

Beneath a pall of what the local Chambers of Commerce like to call "haze" a short local meanders back into West Colton Yard. Slover Mountain the background is slowly be turned into ceme... (more)

I don't know about today, but being in Lodi in 75, we know why they wrote that song. This unrebuilt unit was the high point of the visit.

An A-B-B set of E.M.D E-7 units lead Southern Pacific train Number One, the westbound Sunset Limited, up the eastern side of Beaumont Pass, in the early 1950s. It is only a few minutes out of Pal... (more)

Under a near picture-perfect sky, a Wisconsin Central freight heads northbound out of Duplainville, Wisconsin, on March 15, 1996. The train is powered by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 119, and ... (more)

Marching down the New Mexico mainline of Southern Pacific comes a big 2-8-8-4, looking "right nice" with the cab behind the boiler, and real coal heaped high on that tall-sided tender ba... (more)

Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4449 bore Lima Locomotive Company builders plate #7817; her sister engine #4447, also a two-cylinder Northern-type coupled here behind her, carried the diamond Lima plate #... (more)

The well-known red, orange and black of "Daylight" was the stamp of approval among seasoned travellers in the West on July 10, 1949, when this flashy new streamliner took to the rails of... (more)

The well-known red, orange and black of "Daylight" was the stamp of approval among seasoned travellers in the West on July 10, 1949, when this flashy new streamliner took to the rails of... (more)

Third unit on the roster, this one was built in 1968 and will soon finish its twentieth year for SP. Photo by Tony Vanier. From my collection.

Pulling the grade out of the valley of the Green River in the desolate landscape surrounding the Book Cliffs of Utah, SP 350 leads CTRN coal empties toward Grand Junction, CO and the North Fork Br... (more)

SP 9345 and SP 9282 sit next to BN 3427, BN 3433 and Weyerhaeuser Wood RR 306 at the Larry's Truck and Electric facility in Lordstown, Ohio. The variety of locomotive models and railroads is amaz... (more)

Doing the Crater curl
On the morning of July 31, 1996, a Southern Pacific coal train climbs through the Crater Loops at Crater, Colorado, on the former Rio Grande Craig Branch. Five Gen... (more)