Union Pacific sent this trio of SP GP60 with a intermodal hotshot on its LA&SL route via Cajon Pass. Back then, fouraxle diesels were common on the fastest trains. SP power on the BNSF (formerly A... (more)

On a partly cloudy afternoon, a quartet of Southern Pacific EMDs and a bay window caboose depart Salt Lake City for Ogden. Union Pacific's derrick/work train, complete with a gondola loaded with '... (more)

A Remnant of a Fallen Flag - An old SP unit patched as UP 6353 leads a grain train down the Cajon Pass on the Palmdale Cutoff at Kendall Road. It is sort of ironic that this would be ... (more)

A Southern Pacific SD40R takes a break at the Union Pacific passenger station in Salt Lake City. The 7361 assisted Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 overnight from California to Utah. Rio Grande... (more)

While waiting for Union Pacific's Park City Local to depart Ogden, I photographed this spiffy Southern Pacific SD7R towing a cut of interchange cars bound for the Union Pacific at Riverdale Yard. ... (more)

Southern Pacific 9809 rolling through park like Tehachapi Pass.

SP 7341 leads a eastbound hotshot in the grade to Beaumont. The signal bridge has been dismantled meanwhile, back then it sure wore a coat of cab forward exhaust under the diesel soot.

The shadows are growing longer on that March afternoon as a UP doublestack glides down Beaumont Hill in the San Timoteo Canyon. The leading SP SD40M-2 is quite deceiving as the UP-SP merger was al... (more)

SD40M-2 leads a mixed westbound freight on the Sunset Route over a steel trestle in the Salton Sea area.

SD40M-2 leads a mixed westbound freight on the Sunset Route not far from the Salton Sea shore. At this point the tracks run below sea level - related to the Pacific ocean of course.

Thomas the Tank Engine Lives! Southern Pacific purchased 357 flared radiator SD45s from EMD (not counting variants, such as SDP45s, SD45Xs and SD45T-2s). And these big 20-cylinder brutes ... (more)

A quartet of Tunnel Motors (both SD40T-2s and SD45T-2s) grind upgrade in Cajon Pass as they head westbound Southern Pacific manifest on November 15th, 1980. SP SD40T-2 8333, on the point, was con... (more)

On the last day of January 1979, Southern Pacific GP9R 3190 (with sister engine 3191) shuttle between the engine servicing area and the passenger station for assignment to two of the SP's many com... (more)

A couple of the old Southern Pacific Rotaries can still be seen lingering around Union Pacific's J.R. Davis Yard in Roseville, California. These snow removal beasts are still used in extreme circu... (more)

After three years of above average precipitation, by 1986 Utah's Great Salt Lake was at a record high level. With SP's causeway out of service, the UP granted the SP trackage rights to detour trai... (more)