SP #4449 is seen passing the platform on the long razed Northern Pacific Auburn depot. The train has just entered BNSF's Stampede Subdivision and will soon begin the climb to Stampede Summit.

SP 343 leads the Salt Lake to West Colton manifest off the Palmdale Cutoff as it arrives Colton.

Espee Cab Forward! Thoroughly dominating the main hall of the California State Railroad Museum is one of the most impressive steam locomotives that I have ever seen displayed indoors. Weig... (more)

Shot through the cab of Southern Pacific P-8 2467, Southern Pacific 6819 spends the day inside the museum's roundhouse.

Children and Volunteers alike both admire the 4449 as it backs into the new Doyle L. McCormack Enginehouse after the Grand Opening. The building was generously named after the 4449's engineer and ... (more)

Usually always coupled to an EMD diesel, SP's KM 9009 leads Train 663 west (south) about a mile from Junction City with a trainload of Oregon's most renewable resource, lumber. One of the few sun... (more)

Roseville?, Pine Bluff?, Houston?, Sacramento Shops?; Nope, Chicago! When Southern Pacific finally made it to Chicago, it did so in a big way, with trackage rights over BN and the old GM&O from St... (more)

Looking about as unprofessional as you can get with jumbled up front numberboards and spray painted SP initials on the nose, SP 7465 still gets the job done as seen here heading down Beaumont Hill... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific train passes by the eastbound main at Cienega Creek, Arizona, on April 22, 1990. Inside the curve of this lower track is one of SP’s unique lower quadrant semaphores t... (more)

SP 6051 sits in Old Sac with the SSRR consist, UP's Passenger consist is on the opposing track

The 4449 pulls up to the front of the new engine house getting ready for the Opening Ceremonies of the new Doyle L McCormack Engine House. This is the new official home of Portland's steam locomot... (more)

A mix of SP and AT&SF power snake through the curves at Cable on this Eastbound "Oil cans", as this train was commonly referred to. The mid-train helpers are seen back in the train doing their par... (more)

With five F7As and only one F7B, SP 6436 East enters the siding to meet a westbound as the brakeman from the westbound is prepared to give a rollby inspection. Holborn is 159 miles west of Ogden.

Railfans celebrating the Thanksgiving weekend on Tehachapi Pass got a real treat when SP Kodachrome 7430 lead Kodachrome 9319 and SP 8555 eastbound through Woodford siding with a long, heavy coal ... (more)

The first "SD" built, May 1951. Late evening sun highlights another of the historic units at the Illinois Railway Museum.