A Southern Pacific freight approaches the east switch of the siding at Texas Creek, Colorado, while following the Arkansas River westbound on Rio Grande’s original mainline route through the Roy... (more)

Local power pulls the SU-99 train into the Syracuse Yard on a cold Saturday morning in Upstate NY.

Local power moves as SU-99 enters the Syracuse Yard on a cold Saturday morning in Upstate NY.

Running nearly an hour early, "The Sunset" is stopped at Lafayette.

An empty "Dirt Train" returns from the disposal site in East Carbon, UT. The train is making good time heading west back to Helper, UT on UP's Green River Sub behind a matched set of th... (more)

NECR 324 roars past the Montpelier train station.

Union Pacific's "Dirt Train" is led by a typical (for the era) three-pack of Rio Grande tunnel motors as the train approaches the disposal site in East Carbon. The snow-covered Wasatch ... (more)

"The shot" of the northern end of the line, Florida East Coast Railway heritage painted 720 (SD40-2) and 714 (SD40-2) cross the San Sebastian River Bridge in St. Augustine, FL on Saturda... (more)

Engineer Mel Baughman pauses outside the depot at Helper, Utah, with Rio Grande SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motors” sitting in the yard behind him on October 5, 2004. Mel was born in Rifle, Colorado, on N... (more)

A trio of former Southern Pacific tunnel motors lead a KYLE train across the desolate Kansas landscape.

Prodigious amounts of rain caused disastrous flooding in California in the first half of 1983. SP's line over Tehachapi Pass was badly damaged, and even some areas in the Central Valley saw rerout... (more)

Southern Pacific tunnel motors lift a 98 car manifest toward the summit at Cajon.

Eastbound reefers from the San Joaquin have crested Cajon Summit, and are now dropping toward Colton.

LC 6002, a former SP SD40T-2, heads back west towards Chester after switching some industries around Richburg.

SP 8236 and SP 8249 are part of five units up front as they thunder past with the eastbound Southern Pacific Oil Can train. In the distance, a Santa Fe intermodal is approaching. By the time the ... (more)