A Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW leads a coal load through Crescent, Colorado, on May 7, 2001. A snow-covered Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains looms above the eastbound train.

Running about 8-1/2 hours behind schedule, Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 heads east through Springville, Utah on Dec. 22, 1989.

Southern Pacific 2-6-0 #1744 leads the Heber Creeper's afternoon train from Provo Canyon through Utah's picturesque Heber Valley at Charleston.

August 31, 1980 was a triumphant day for Southern Pacific steam fans when 2-6-0 #1744 made it's first test run with Santa Maria Valley 2-8-0 #100 at Charleston, Utah. The 1744 was built by Baldwin... (more)

With three F units, SP hustles Mail Train 39 westward at Tully, Ariz. on Sept. 9, 1964 as a storm brews behind it. The train was received from the Rock Island at Tucumcari, N.M.

A small park is adjacent to the Tehachapi Depot Railroad Museum where these signals of railroading past are on display along with an old caboose, SP 2009.

Glass telegraph insulators on display at the Tehachapi Depot Railroad Museum.

A perfect springtime morning in 1989 finds a Southern Pacific SD45T-2R leading Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 east through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon. The SP 6776 was built the SS... (more)

Daylight In The Dark. SP 4449 sits under a darkening sky in Owosso, with her lead truck derailed and on the ground. A number of steam men are going about the business of getting her... (more)

A "westbound" (headed for San Francisco, no matter what the compass direction on the SP) works up Cajon behind a quartet of big EMD units. Today, this is Union Pacific trackage, of course, and one... (more)

After the Geneva ore contact was up and going SP assigned their best/newest power to service to it. That brought new GE's onto WC/DM&IR for the trip from Chicago to the Mine. Four nearly spotless ... (more)

A pair of new GE AC4400CWs lead Southern Pacific's Salt Lake City to Denver manifest east through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon. The SP really put this pair of newbies to the test with 12... (more)

A graduate of SP's memorable SD45 rebuild program at its Sacramento Shops is poised to lead an eastbound over Donner Pass in this scene from the strange days of the still-born SP-Santa Fe merger.

During the late eighties, I always tried to get up to West Anahiem Yard to shoot any of the old Cadillac SD9s or SD7s still toiling around the branch. I got very lucky one day and got the Costa M... (more)

A pair of Southern Pacific searchlights still stand guard over the West Valley Subdivision in Davis, California. The the good ol' days, these signals would watch many SP trains making their way up... (more)