SP9817 exits Tunnel 10 with its train of Road-Railers.

A new place to call home. This is the 1st family photo in the new ORHF Engine House but it will not be the last. After weeks outside in the elements the building has progressed enough to ... (more)

Three new Southern Pacific GE Dash 9-44CWs take a taconite ore train through the Wisconsin marshes and is about to cross Highway 28 at Theresa on October 29, 1994. This was a joint taconite ore tr... (more)

The 1979 Pacific Railroad Society "Mountain Outin" passenger special, with Amtrak SDP40F 518 and 517, has stopped at west end of Woodford siding to meet SP 9327 East. Every vestibule and baggage ... (more)

A pair of new GE AC4400CWs lead Southern Pacific's DVROM (Denver - Salt Lake City) manifest through Price Canyon just west of Lynn. A pair of Rio Grande SD40T-2s are visible shoving on the rear of... (more)

After stopping at Tehachapi Summit, the head-end power for the BKDOU, also known as the Oil Cans, has cut off from its train and is in the process of picking up the 8822 in the helper spur. When ... (more)

It’s midday at Arnold, Kansas on the hot summer day of July 25, 1996. The only action is a westbound Southern Pacific freight blowing for the main grade crossing in town. The cinderblock (what we ... (more)

An SP eastbound roars through Ordway on the west side of Beaumont Hill.

A line up of local power on the Cotton Belt at Illmo, Missouri, in September 1984. A SSW GP20 keeps company with two SP GP9s.

A Southern Pacific freight pauses at Mojave, California at the eastern foot of Tehachapi Pass on February 29, 1988. This winter evening, stormy clouds are still rolling off the Tehachapi Mountains... (more)

Now that the mid-train helper set has been cut out, SP 9355 East has stopped after backing down to re-connect to the back half of its train while a westbound Santa Fe intermodal races by. The hel... (more)

A pair of new Southern Pacific GE’s, Nos. 340 and 345, head west with a freight at Princeton, Colorado, on September 5, 1995. This is on the famed route over the Continental Divide over Tennessee ... (more)

A Southern Pacific/Wisconsin Central Geneva Steel ore train passes milepost 188 at Neenah, Wisconsin, on December 11, 1994.

When the engineer on the westbound SP 8562 asked a group of teenage railfans if they would like to come up in the cab for a tour and to take pictures of the approaching eastbound, we sure were not... (more)

Southern Pacific 2958 sits at Chrome Crankshaft in Alhambra, California on a clear December day. The locomotive was spared the cutters torch and eventually donated to the Orange Empire Railroad M... (more)