SP SD70M 9822 with UP SD40-2 3646 and UP SD60M 6225 at Caliente, Tehachapi Creek, CA.

The DVRVF Denver to Roseville was little a hot shot train. That ran much of the time with a pure set of GP60's in the mid 1990's. It made for a very good looking set of power. This one had SSW 968... (more)

A westbound train on the Siskiyou Line is about to pass under I-5. The lead unit had just been remanufactured by Morrison Knudsen.

A local on the Siskiyou Line splits a set of semaphores in late summer 1989.

Four units on the head-end and manned pushers on the tail-end of an eastbound (railroad westbound) freight grind upgrade on their climb of the SP's Cascade Line from Oakridge to Cascade Summit.

Southern Pacific’s KCOAF train pauses on top of scenic Tennessee Pass, on August 2, 1996. Two GE AC4400CWs from the Minturn helper pool are moving from the house track onto the point of the Kans... (more)

With more than enough power to accelerate its short commuter train, Southern Pacific SDP45 3208 prepares to depart San Francisco for San Jose on a spring afternoon. In passenger service SP locomot... (more)

Southern Pacific had a long spur in Roseburg it used to switch out a sawmill and other industries. The Rice Hill Rocket job backs up the spur in September 1989, passing the mill's log deck.

In winter, the Rogue Valley is often socked in with thick fog. This westbound on the Siskiyou Line has just climbed out of the gloom as it approaches Ashland.

The very first SD type locomotive, built in May 1951 as General Motors Electro-Motive Division's prototype Demonstrator #990. The 1518 is viewed here in yard 2 at IRM.

One of the three SP SDP45s that received the SPSF "Kodachrome" paint scheme lays over at Ashland.

Helpers of an eastbound Siskiyou Line train roar through Divide, Oregon.

Done working on the Modoc Line, the Copic Local takes the west leg of the wye at Texum. The train will now work industries on the Shasta Route mainline.

SP 5316 West roars past Stockton Tower with a GP9 as the second unit in the consist. In the 1970s, SP's SD39s did not often venture north of Fresno on the Valley Line, working Tehachapi and Cajon ... (more)

This photo was taken at the end of a couple eras. These two cabooses bringing up the end of an eastbound SP freight entering Roseville represent a couple generations of bay window caboose design. ... (more)