Otto's speed estimate for SP train number 7 was 35 MPH at Edgerly Louisiana in 1936. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

When the Modoc Line was closed during 1987 and 1988, Southern Pacific routed Oregon lumber traffic to the Ogden gateway via Roseville using an EURGM symbol. One of these trains heads west on the S... (more)

Almost two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, the Swift RoadRailer heads for Southern California.

SP 4-8-2 4364 leads Second 23, the Beaver, at Gerber California in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A westbound Southern Pacific manifest slows to take siding for Amtrak 14 at Grass Lake.

Daily Mulberry, FL-New Orleans, LA mixed with the traditional runthru power from SP. This tradition continued into the UP years, but eventually the train routing was changed and replaced with ano... (more)

Espee Tank. The waste water collection tank at the Union Pacific facility/Amtrak station in Dunsmuir, California is a lasting memory of the Southern Pacific Lines. Depicted is SP 6839 (SD45... (more)

Over two and a half years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, there was still a fair amount of SP power on the Shasta Route. Led by one of the 25 SD70Ms SP acquired in 1994, a southboun... (more)

A set of Southern Pacific power makes a move at the west switch of Mount Hebron siding. This location is on the Black Butte Subdivision between Klamath Falls and Dunsmuir.

A Southern Pacific freight heads east along the "beautiful" Los Angeles River on the Union Pacific's Los Angeles Sub, which it uses to head south ("railroad east") through this part of downtown Lo... (more)

After 22 miles of downgrade from the summit near Grass Lake siding, this eastbound intermodal train has hit the Butte Valley floor at Mount Hebron. At the time, doublestacks on the Shasta Route we... (more)

Over two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, an SP unit with patina leads a southbound manifest through the sagebrush plains of Siskiyou County's Butte Valley.

Nearly three years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a solid set of SP power works the Seattle to Los Angeles Z train.

A non-clearing eastbound holds up the RoadRailer on a cloudless summer morning in the Butte Valley. Lead unit SP 8626 had been built for Chicago Great Western 30 years earlier.

Grimy but still SP
On the morning of April 23, 2002, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train heads downgrade at mile 22.6 at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Clay, Col... (more)