Southern Pacific AC4400CW No. 319 looks a bit battle worn as it leads an eastbound Union Pacific freight train on the Sunset Route through Rosenberg, Texas, on March 15, 2013. Reportedly, it is on... (more)

Two Southern Pacific AC4400CWs lead a Union Pacific coal train out of Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado, on February 8, 1999. The rear of the train can be seen passing Plain siding in the background... (more)

Late in their careers these got a renumbering into a yard unit series. Photographer unknown. From the collection of Sid Vaught

SP 9372 east leads an impressive 10 unit consist of SP, BN and Rio Grande units on the Sealand- Chicago double stack train. The train had no problem climbing the hills on the Stormy division with ... (more)

SP power has been working the Altoona Sub for several weeks now, mainly assigned to MALMCS sand trains between Altoona and Mason City. This train was created to bypass switching the cars out at S... (more)

It's not that the GP30 was that uncommon to see but, lost in sea of 35s, their appearance did occasion some special interest. Here two of my favorites have set out to head a local on a day when t... (more)

SP 144 leads two patched units on MALMCS (Altoona-Mason City) sand loads.

Photo 3 of 3---Now that UP 6758 East has cleared, SP 314 West moves on westward around Big 10 Curve and the engineer can look down at his own rear end.

Photo 1 of 3---On Colorado's Front Range and on the upper level UP 6758 leads loaded coal train eastbound at Clay siding while SP 314 West waits in the siding at Rocky for the loaded train to clea... (more)

DIPPIN' TIME: There's not much for this train crew to do while waiting for an eastbound on short time to show up, so the engineer of the Houston-Denver "Q" train loads up"just a pinch between chee... (more)

A Southern Pacific SD45T-2R rolls slowly through Ogden with Rio Grande train #287. The 6774 was rebuilt in Sacramento, California as part of the M-99 program.

A P-6 Pacific is being readied for its next assignment. This locomotive was built by Brooks in 1906 with 77 inch drivers and delivered 40,570 pounds of tractive effort. ... (more)

eastbound SP train coming into Denver in morning light near Leyden siding

Traipsing around taking railroad photographs, it's sometimes easy to forget that railroading can be a deadly game, unforgiving of human oversight or mistake. The gloomy skies match the somber mood... (more)

Long Beach-New Orleans/CSXT bound stack train drops onto the downgrade of Paisano Pass just east of the summit in March, 1996. The rear end of the train is just clearing Paisano Junction, where th... (more)