Late in the afternoon, three new SP GE AC4400CWs roar through Rocklin, CA, with an eastbound manifest. They're headed for Donner Pass. The ACs were the last new locomotives SP bought before it was... (more)

Two SP Baldwin switchers sit on the turntable tracks at the Salem roundhouse in August 1972. No. 1865 is a DRS-4-4-1000, while No. 2103 is an S12. SP purchased many Baldwin offerings, with most of... (more)

Out on the high desert of eastern Utah on the Rio Grande. Not a Rio Grande locomotive in site. As Southern Pacific SD45T-2 9314 leads 3 GP60's as they race westbound across the desert.

A mixed freight operates between Princeton and Granite, CO on the Tennessee Pass route.

Empties roll along the Eagle River approaching Redcliff, CO.

A classic SP caboose brings up the back end of a local as it has just crossed the diamond at Joliet.

Open Door Policy... A view from the cab of SP S4 #1474 at the Orange Empire Railroad Museum.

Pulling in SP's 16th St. Station to pick their first passengers for the trip down The Valley to L.A.

Using a borrowed Espee "Crud," one of Molalla Western's first trains heads southeast out of Canby, bound for Molalla.

Westbound empties roll along the Colorado River between Radium and State Bridge, CO.

On a frigid Sunday afternoon, a pair of SD70Ms depart Klamath Falls for California with a manifest.

Three trains are seen in this view! SP 9179 heads West on the main at Canyon while SP 8561 waits at the East end of the siding. In the background, a Santa Fe train heads Eastbound on the North M... (more)

An SP meets the competition at Tehachapi. When I lived in Southern California I made as many trip as I could to Tehachapi and when I moved to CO every trip home involved a trip to Tehachapi as it ... (more)

Southern Pacific EMD MP15AC 2731, (numbered 2702-2759)

The slide is undated, but the power and consist are indicative of having been in the first few weeks of Amtrak. All the cars appear to be Espee tomato cans.