Amtrak No. 6 negotiates Cape Horn.

A six-unit EMD helper adds braking power to the SP's Oil Cans as they come down the steep defile between the Tehachapi Valley and Warren.

UP 7875 West departs Big Sandy after a crew change. The train came down the ex-Cotton Belt from Texarkana, and is now on the T&P headed for Dallas.

Recently delivered GP60 No. 9752 leads an eastbound SP stack train over the 4th crossing of Tehachapi Creek.

With the sun setting over the San Joaquin Valley, Santa Fe 5979 East roars up the grade out of Edison, CA, and heads for Sandcut and Tehachapi Pass. The shape of the big windshields on the cowl is... (more)

A very long eastbound SP manifest roars up the grade east of Bealville, with the head end exiting tunnel 5 and its trailers still passing in the foreground. This train was a good 10,000 feet long!... (more)

Not long after being repainted back into the red & silver, a pair of FP45s leads a Santa Fe 589 train up the steep grade out of Mojave, CA, on Tehachapi's southeastern slope. The smoke here is com... (more)

On a beautiful summer's morning, a westbound BN manifest takes the bridge across Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint. On the point are an ex-NP U33C and C&S SD40-2, the former with its distinctive red ... (more)

Near the rear of a huge eastbound SP manifest, a big 85-foot high cube boxcar exits tunnel 9. The train's helper can be seen on the upper level of the Loop. SP was known for running huge drag frei... (more)

On a clear fall afternoon in the Sierras, Amtrak train No. 6 accelerates out of Truckee after picking up passengers. In the early part of their career, Amtrak placed its GE "Pepsi cans" on the Cal... (more)

On the rear of a hot 991 train on this beautiful spring afternoon in the Tehachapis is a sizeable consist of Santa Fe passenger equipment, including a dome and observation, all in great shape. On ... (more)

SP SD7 No. 2704 and mates wait for permission from the Valley-Mountain dispatcher in Bakersfield to head light down the mountain after helping an eastbound manifest. Many of SP's SD7s were deliver... (more)

Venerable SP SW1500 No. 2689 sits in the Roseville Shops awaiting repairs. In the last half of the 1980s, SP began removing all oscillating Gyralites from its locomotives. The reason? The FRA had ... (more)

During the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973-74, Chevron's big oil refinery in Richmond, CA, ran short of crude oil. To supply it with the needed crude, Chevron ran a unit oil train over UP and SP from its... (more)

SP icicle breaker GP38-2 No. 4817 plows fresh snow at Soda Springs even as the white stuff keeps falling.