Southern Pacific SW1500 2468 passes the Union Pacific’s mission-style station in Anaheim, California. This SP train, operating on the UP, will shortly cross Lincoln Boulevard and, as it does so,... (more)

Having recently returned from Amtrak service, all the SDP45 locomotives were being assigned to the commute pool allowing the retirement of the last of the FM Train Masters. ... (more)

On July 26, 1996, an eastbound Southern Pacific freight follows the Arkansas River as it negotiates the rugged and rocky confines of the Royal Gorge west of Cañon City, Colorado. Just ahead of th... (more)

The engineer on the very dirty SP 9255 enjoys a smoke on his pipe as he and his brakeman wait patiently for helpers to come west from Palm Springs and tie on to the back of their train. After the... (more)

a recent recovery of some old digital files brought back some images of mine from 2018! Including the Lerro Productions charter at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Oct, 2018. Center stage... Sou... (more)

A rather old and weathered looking SP 6817 leads an eastbound manifest train out of Bakersfield as it passes under the classic SP signal near Sandcut. Soon, the SP 6817 will be in run 8 as the tr... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific freight rumbles through a severe afternoon storm at Brandon on July 25, 1996. This location is on the former Missouri Pacific main line across eastern Colorado utiliz... (more)

It is nearing 1:45 pm, at which time Northwestern Pacific train 4, the northbound Redwood, will depart Willits, California, to head for Eureka, some 144 miles ahead. The train, consisting ... (more)

Southern Pacific's Weyerhaeuser Local heads west to switch industries in Springfield. By 1995, the days of the SD9s were coming to a close.

Passing through the unique Flatiron rock formations, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train powered by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs exits Tunnel 4 and threads Tunnel 3 just west of Plainview, Colo... (more)

SP 9072 west has stopped for a red signal at Sandcut in order to let the Santa Fe 5351, which is pulling the hot 199 intermodal train, to run around it.

SP 9255 has been stopped on the eastbound main for quite a while waiting for a helper set, so the conductor invited me up into the cab of the SP 9357, which gave me the opportunity to take a photo... (more)

Southern Pacific manifest heads toward the Huey P. Long Bridge.