Heading to Los Angeles, Southern Pacific GS-4 4449 makes a service stop in Tehachapi after climbing out of the San Joaquin Valley. The low sun this morning creates a mood similar to a plein ai... (more)

At the Nixon Power Plant. SP 6785 6840 7424 8361 unload a coal train, at a Colorado power plant. The picture really depicts how the Southern Pacific looked the last few years.

A ten car California-Nevada R.R. Historical Society Excursion is seen at Roseville California on November 30th 1957. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

For reasons unknown SP train number 19, the Klamath, has arrived Gerber California 8 hours & 15 minutes late on July 30th 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A manifest comes into West Colton Yard off the Palmdale Cutoff. Power are a pair of SD40T-2s (SP and DRGW) bookending a MK SD40M-2 rebuild. Oct 25 1995.

An intermodal train for the Harbor serpentines its way towards West Colton Yard under the leadership of a rebuilt GP40, a Cotton Belt GP60, and a grime coated SD45T-2. Image taken from Pepper Aven... (more)

The hostlers pull an outbound train forward after putting the head end power on (as seen from Pepper Ave, over West Colton Yard). They will then hop on the helper unit and take up to the other end... (more)

A trio of two kind of new and one brand new eSPee AC4400CWs head towards the Wilmington Wye south of Dolores Yard. October 15 1995.

Awaiting the passage of a directors' special bound for Oregon, Southern Pacific's PTLAT train is parked in the siding at Mott, California.

A Union Pacific eastbound train, operating on BNSF's San Bernardino Sub, with an eclectic mix of early merger power: Southern Pacific SD45R 7453 (ex-SP SD45 8887), Union Pacific SD40-2 3915 and a... (more)

Hooping Up Orders

As an eastbound Southern Pacific Railroad freight, led by Cotton Belt SD45T-2 9269, departs Hiland, at the summit of Cajon Pass, the conductor grabs his ... (more)

The sound of dynamic braking fills the air as a westbound Southern Pacific lumber drag highballs Mott, California. After making a 180-degree turn just ahead at Sawmill Curve, the train will start ... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific train is holding the main at Mott, waiting for an eastbound train to climb out of the Sacramento River Canyon and clear on the siding in the foreground.

A little over a month after it was delivered, Southern Pacific's first SD70M leads a westbound lumber drag on the Shasta Route.

Working in its fifth year since it was built by EMD, an SD70M leads a westbound manifest train on the Shasta Route.