Tunnel Motor #8506 leads a mixed-freight consist up Beaumont Hill.

It's amazing how a good rebuild can take a beat up old warhorse and turn out something just like it came off the showroom floor. This one is so pretty they let it handle an executive special.

They look kind of stubby now but we remember the days when these units where the latest thing. This one has been modernized and the great SP light package is gone.

Some of SP's best power roamed the WC once the Geneva ore contract was up and running. Most of the time the SP's tended to stay in ore service, but on occasion they would be cut off at North Fond ... (more)

Accelerating for the climb to Tehachapi

The beautiful SP Black Widow Schemed GP9 at the Campo Museum heads into the shed in the last minutes of light on this beautiful Sunday. This is my first photo of the year, and it was from my first... (more)

Classic Southern Pacific. Former commuter Geep #3190, now relegated to work train duty, shoves a load of ties into the siding at Lingard, CA.

A westbound Southern Pacific piggyback train recedes in the distance on the 1958 Morrison-Knudsen fill across the Great Salt Lake, passing the shatterered remnants of the original Harriman-era woo... (more)

Following movie work in Southern California, SP 4449 makes a high speed run north through California's Central Valley. The Road Foreman would appreciate the economy haze, and that traditional SP ... (more)

Another expansive view of Southern Pacific and the Great Salt Lake. Hard work by the maintenance crews has raised this portion of the Salt Lake fill, named the "Bagley Fill" between the eastern sh... (more)

The brakeman steps out onto the rear platform of the caboose to observe the digital readout from a 70s era Southern Pacific hotbox detector as his train heads off across the Great Salt Lake desert... (more)

Sunset Route: A pair of matching Scarlet and Grey Espee GP60's thread thru the crossovers at Hazel Dell as the sun prepares the slip below the western horizon. Amazingly, SP 9721 remains u... (more)

The vastness of the American West can sometimes be unnerving to Easterners, whose vistas are largely interrupted by trees and hills--but perhaps no place is more unencumbered by impediments to vie... (more)

The El Paso bound train is in the hole waiting for a east bound to clear.

Four big SD's lead an eastbound SP manifest off the Great Salt Lake fill at Saline, returned to terra firma after a dozen miles "at sea." Visible in the distance are the hills and microwave tower ... (more)