A wreck on the Southern Pacific in Arizona has necessitated some of their hotter trains to detour on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe in order to reach southern California. SP SD45R 7498 (ex-SP SD4... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific manifest highballs Castle Crag siding in the Sacramento River Canyon.

Resting at Truckee, California, on March 10, 2000, Southern Pacific EMD GP38-2 No. 4809 is specially-equipped with to provide motive power for snow fighting trains on Donner Pass. The apparatus on... (more)

Two brand new SD70Ms roll a lumber drag through the west end of Dunsmuir Yard on a perfect summer morning.

A westbound departs Castle Crag siding near Dunsmuir, passing one of the last wig-wags in Shasta County, California.

The visual cues in the photograph provide no clue that this is a Union Pacific train. In January 1997, a flood detour heads south on the Modoc Line, beginning the climb out of the Madeline Plains.... (more)

A Southern Pacific tunnel motor rests in the late afternoon sun at Mojave.

Southern Pacific E9A #6051 takes up the rear on the California State Railroad Museum's Polar Express excursion with Santa Fe F7A #347C in the background welcoming passengers.

Built by the American Locomotive Company in June 1955 as Southern Pacific 1050, this T-6 locomotive was renumbered 1217 in 1965. With 82 on the roster, SP owned more ALCO S-6 locomotives than any... (more)

Southern Pacific train number 4 is seen at San Diego California on April 23rd 1933. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A Southern Pacific freight is seen near Cougar California, with snowcapped Mount Shasta visible in the background, on July 26th 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Nearly seven years after receiving the red and yellow colors of the proposed Southern Pacific Santa Fe merger, Southern Pacific SD45R 7564 is showing some wear and tear when found in Dolores Yard ... (more)

Aside from the loaded ballast cars on the head end, this westbound train on the Modoc Line is virtually all empty boxcars and flatcars returning to Oregon for another load of forest products. This... (more)

An eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line is about to make a 180 degree change in direction at Indian Camp Loop. This train is around five miles into the climb from Likely to Sage Hen.

This odd structure once stood at Sage Hen on the Modoc Line. Not long after Rio Grande Industries acquired Southern Pacific in fall 1988, an eastbound passes the shack.