Taken from the Martinez end of the bridge. A Roger Puta Photograph

The second unit is the only unit painted in Caltrain colors. A Roger Puta Photograph

Assisting were SDP45s 3201 and 3207. A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

Known as "popsicles", the SP had 4 of these unsuccessful units. This was their first run and one had already failed and was set out. A Roger Puta Photograph

The Rosebowl Special (note date) on a very foggy day. A Roger Puta Photograph

Mid-train helpers on the "Oil Cans" A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

The Disney Daylight: SP 4449 and a short train ran from Portland to L.A. for the filming of "Tough Guys" A Roger Puta Photograph

A three way meet is in the works at Castle Gate in Price Canyon on July 7, 2000. UP 7078 leads Utah Railway's CWCLX-07 (Willow Creek to Los Angeles, export coal), SP 8249 leads UP's ZDVRO-07 (Denv... (more)

Eastbound KYLE road freight switches the local elevator at Genoa on its slow trek across the High Plains of eastern Colorado. Today's train has a pair of SP painted SD45T-2s doing the honors. The ... (more)

KYLE 9362 east, still in full blown SP paint, rolls across the high plains of eastern Colorado as a mix of sun and clouds sweep across the view of Pikes Peak looming in the distance.

It Sounded Great!

In a scheme repeated thousands of times in the 1970s and 1980s, a westbound Southern Pacific freight grinds upgrade on the Palmdale Cutoff, SP's shortcut between Bl... (more)

A nice glint off a Southern Pacific westbound at Sand Cut, California. Roger Puta's camera was looking east at the Tehachapis at a little after sunrise in March 1988. A Roger Puta Photograp... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph