The aspen groves north of Chiloquin, Oregon are some of the most underrated fall color in the Northwest. Fall 1999 was an especially good year for the trees.

The SP Board of Directors tour the Shasta Route on a hot August day. Paint on the SDPs was so fresh you could smell it as the train went by.

Preparing to back on to the Sunset Golden State. 6018 was the only E8 SP had. A Roger Puta Photograph

Heading up Tehachapi Pass near Caliente in May of 1994.

East meets west as SP and Conrail units pull a train west along San Pablo Bay.

A train on the Modoc Line nears Klamath Falls.

On a snowy January morning, SP's Grants Pass Turn switches the Crowson Corporation mill on the south side of Ashland. No one knew it at the time, but in just six years the Siskiyou Line would be s... (more)

Espee's last Newberg Turn heads west on the Newberg Branch in Portland's southwest suburbs. The three SD9s on the point of the train will be left at McMinnville for Willamette & Pacific's use when... (more)

Former Southern Pacific F7(A) 6402- now an exhibit of the inside of the carbody. This F unit is the subject of hot debate about the why's and how's of the decision to interpret this F unit in this... (more)

Former Southern Pacific Baldwin DRS66-1500 in the Tiger Stripe paint scheme. Only two known left in existence, the other being Magma Arizona #10.

A handful of generations in one image. A group of young school kids learn about Espee Baldwin class of 1944 cab forward while the Siemens high speed rail mock-up peeks around the corner. Possibly ... (more)

Former Southern Pacific Railroad, Baldwin class of 1921 heavy Pacific. One of two Espee Pacifics restored post-steam era. She is on loan to CSRM by the Pacific Locomotive Association, last operate... (more)

Eastbound SP train climbing Tehachapi's through Woodford

Westbound coal train on UP Muncie station West Kansas City

After a nocturnal climb up the steep western grade of Tennessee Pass, an eastbound Southern Pacific freight passes Crystal Lakes east (south) of Malta, Colorado, as dawn sunlight hits Mount Massiv... (more)