I can't remember exactly, but with only four units on the head end, I'm pretty sure 9613 wasn't close to the speed limit as it leaves the orange groves of San Timoteo Canyon and heads for Palm Spr... (more)

one of SP's many "Haulers" led by all four of their GP40X's making a set out at SP's exPE J Yard near downtown Los Angeles, CA

A heavy eastbound fruit block roars upgrade through the mulitple reverse curves at Ordway.

Just after sunrise, an SP eastbound negotiates the multiple reverse curves at Bealville's west end and heads into the Allard Horseshoe.

Tunnel motor No. 8572 leads a consist of EMDs and an eastbound manifest into the Allard Horseshoe.

On a sunny afternoon in March 1975, SP's Valley-Mountain Dispatcher is busy trying to unravel a traffic jam at Bealville on Tehachapi as 8305 West drops downgrade around another manifest in the ho... (more)

Westbound Clifton local along the Gila River near the 4 corners highway junction

Early in the morning a heavy eastbound manifest rounds a corner at Cable Crossover with its power shooting exhaust skyward.

Exhaust roars skyward as a six-unit helper pushes the Oil Cans uphill toward the approaching summit.

A Maxi-Trax equipped GP40 leads a North Line Local out of Tucson Yard as another train arrives from El Paso on the adjacent main track.

Two new SD40T-2 "snoots" leads a westbound manifest through the dry environs of Woodford.

Cotton Belt 6849 East roars uphill through the reverse curves between tunnel 10 and Marcel just after sun-up.

A WB SP train with a Cotton Belt "snoot" tunnel motor on the point climbs up the short grade at Sandcut. Note the MU cable draped over the Gyralite! K64, Minolta SRT 101, Rokkor 50mm f1.7

Cotton Belt 9628 West, a hot pig train out of Portland headed for Los Angeles, clangs through the Santa Fe diamonds at Stockton Tower.