Improvised helpers on the Hill As a Southern Pacific eastbound, powered by SP U33C 8771, U33C 8635, SD45T-2 9212 and SD45 8928, stalled while climbing over the Tehachapi Mountains when ... (more)

Although BN emphasized its Inside Gateway between Seattle and California, they also operated a Seattle based runthrough train to Southern Pacific's Brooklyn Yard in Portland and on to Eugene & Ca... (more)

Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard opened in 1972, and for use on the hump the railroad purchased six SD38-2s to be mated with slugs built from retired Alco C-628s and C-630s. But the SP kept ex... (more)

Niles Canyon Railway's Southern Pacific NW2 switcher poses in the sun next to the two semaphores just south of the Sunol terminal.

Southern Pacific SW1500s 2552 and 2632, now owned by Union Pacific, work the UP’s Huntington Beach Local. These two "Cruds" have cut a Centerflow covered hopper off their train to spot at an in... (more)

The early morning sun greets Southern Pacific 8361 as it leads Rio Grande 3132 and a doublestack train east out of West Colton yard and under the Pepper Street overpass.

An eastbound rolls through the tangent between tunnels 11 and 12 along the Sacramento River. This is the northern (timetable east) end of the line change built for the Shasta Dam. The train is nea... (more)

On the second day of its journey to New Orleans, the Louisiana World's Fair Daylight crosses the Sacramento River Arm of Lake Shasta.

Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 309 and UP EMD SD70ACe No. 8381 are in Diesel House at UP’s Burnham Shops facility in Denver, Colorado, on the eve of December 4, 2015.

Slightly west of Marcel, Californa, a 38-car eastbound Southern Pacific train climbs toward Tehachapi on the morning of May 11, 1984.

A decade or so out of passenger service, a quartet of Southern Pacific SDP45s, with SP 3206 facing the camera, have brought the Anaheim Hauler to town from West Colton. (Anaheim, California – M... (more)

Rolling along the Arkansas River between Princeton and Granite, CO, SP 8703 leads CNW 6933 and DRGW 5410 on a Herington, KS to Oakland, CA auto train. The Tennessee Pass route was active for only ... (more)

The rotaries throttle up while plowing the #1 Track in Soda Springs on UP's Roseville Subdivision. Well known photographer Dick Dorn can be seen riding on the trailing locomotive.

The deadline at Schellville as 2021 comes to an end. What a sight for 1st generation and SP fans after so many years.