The setting sun casts a glow over the eastern sky as SP 8239 heads west through Montclair towards Los Angeles.

The early morning fog is burning off as snoot nose SP 8303 leads an eastbound manifest train up the grade through San Timoteo Canyon.

Using an overhead crane, workers at Burnham Shops set down SP GP60 No. 9743 on steel horses. The EMD is getting a pair of newly rebuilt trucks.

A westbound in the Willamette Valley passes the passenger station in Salem, with power typical of the late 80s.

The ever popular SP 7319, trying to emulate UP's Desert Storm unit, with it's mostly pealed paint job, was leading a westbound train up the Coast Line emerging from the Santa Susanna tunnel into a... (more)

With SP's loaded Oil Cans stopped just west of Ilmon, a member of the helper crew walks back towards his units after conferring with the head-end crew regarding the problem with the train. The hea... (more)

SP 8232 East roars through the sequential reverse curves of the Narrows just west of Caliente. When the SP built the line through this area, it put it virtually on top of Caliente Creek. That was ... (more)

Three new Southern Pacific AC4400CWs lead a heavy CTRN coal train through the curves at Mitchell, Colorado, climbing the 3 percent grade of Tennessee Pass east out of Minturn on the morning of Aug... (more)

An eastbound CTRN coal train grinds through the curves at Mitchell, Colorado, while climbing Tennessee Pass on August 1, 1996. DPU-equipped trains were still being tested in this era, but on this ... (more)

Climbing Tennessee Pass, the rear of a CTRN coal train gets assistance from a manned helper set while negotiating the curves at Mitchell, Colorado, on August 1, 1996. This helper set was added to ... (more)

About ten miles out of Alturas, an eastbound train on the Modoc Line rolls at track speed. When the train reaches Likely, the climb to Sage Hen summit will begin.

Less than 100 miles into its trip to Los Angeles, the Pacific Coast Express rolls through a frosty morning in the Willamette Valley.

West bound freight passing thru Palisade, NV where the SP once met the Eureka & Palisade narrow gauge. Rhe depot was about fifty yards in front of where I standing.

A westbound Union Pacific coal empty powered by three Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs and a UP EMD SD9043MAC reflect a brilliant setting sun as the train approaches Plainview, Colorado, on January 2... (more)

SP 8648 East roars up the Valley Line toward Stockton Tower and the crossing of the Santa Fe. The train is a seemingly endless string of boxcars of various types headed back to the Pacific Northwe... (more)