Rolling southward freight (eastbound in Southern Pacific parlance), a trio of EMD SD45s, consisting of SP 8898, 9120 and 9100, is nineteen miles from San Luis Obispo, at which point this crew will... (more)

A former Southern Pacific caboose sits at La Marque just outside the Texas City Terminal Railway yard. Now owned by UP, it seems to have been out of service for a lengthy period of time, with its ... (more)

Southern Pacific U33C 8707, built in late 1971 by General Electric, sits in the railroad's West Colton Yard. This order, SP 8688 through 8727 (as well as the following order, 8728 through 8737), ... (more)

SP commuter power sits around the turntable at Bayshore Roundhouse in Brisbane California circa 1970. H24-66s 3028, 3032, and 3024 each have different styles of numberboard on their long hood. R... (more)

Not all Texas is flat! SP's #MFLAT transverses scenic Sanderson Canyon near Feodora, on the Del Rio Subdivision. This is what I call Southern Pacific in the 1980s! Photo by Reid McNaught and from ... (more)

“Madame Queen” the diesel-devotees called her - or the “Queen Mary,” she was SF-1, under her original EMD (General Motors) serial number 744 of December 1937. She was 1800 horsepower, and ... (more)

Southern Pacific train No. 52, the southbound "San Joaquin Daylight," running south of Caliente in the Tehachapi Mountains of Southern California in January 1960. Photo by Southern Pacif... (more)

4449 prepares to run around their train on the wye at Bend before proceeding back to Portland.

SP 4449 heads alongside the Deschutes River on a hot June afternoon on the OT Sub.

Winding down the Oregon Trunk Sub, the 4449 leads an excursion train at Box Elder Canyon.

The major difference in appearance between Southern Pacific's GS-3 and GS-4 Northern-type steam locomotives was the front end. The former had a single headlight on the conical-shaped, silver-pain... (more)

4449 heads through the Columbia River Gorge on an excursion bound for Bend.

New SP GP40P-2 3197 leads bi-levels on commuter train #112 near San Francisco, CA in 1976. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

SP GP9s 3700 and 3742 lead a local underneath the Tunnel Avenue bridge in Brisbane, CA on the Bayshore Cutoff near San Francisco in August 1973. If I'm not mistaken, the truck passing over the br... (more)