SP 9 waits at the Owenyo trainorder office for its last orders. It had been filling in while diesel SP 1 was in the Bakersfield shops, but the diesel is back from the shops and soon will take ove... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific fright heads north, splitting the semaphore signals, on the Portland Division. (On the SP, trains heading toward San Francisco are westbound, and those heading away ... (more)

Conrail TV-556 approaches the Secaucus Road grade crossing in North Bergen while traveling down the Northern Running Track (former Erie Northern Branch) at a brisk 15mph. NYS&W's Resources Termin... (more)

Southern Pacific 4-8-8-2 number 4190 heads east with SP 3rd 824, a 76 car freight, at Los Angeles California in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP SD7 1518 sits on display at IRM.

Switching cars in Guadalupe, on California's Central Coast, is Southern Pacific SD7R 1500. Built by EMD in January 1953 as SP SD7 5292, this engine was renumbered to SP 2713 in the railroad's mas... (more)

Union Pacific "Quality Manifest" train 1-WCKC-Q-(K)-17 passes through the Hinda Crossovers as it heads east from West Colton CA to Kansas City KS. Still early after the UP's acquisition... (more)

SP cab-forward 4135 leads 61 cars westbound at 10 MPH, after exiting a snowshed in the vicinity of Donner Pass, on August 4th 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP Daylight, 2nd 99, is seen at the Third & Townsend Street station in San Francisco California on July 26th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP cab-forward 4119 leads The Owl, SP 2nd 26, at Los Angeles California on May 4th 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

The old SP Colton Yard etc. was down by the grain mill in the distance. To handle eastbound trains over Beaumont Hill they kept a helper pocket just east of the old yard. Here a helper set await... (more)

Oh, California, America's parsidse lost, you affect us all, especially when we have lived there. We long for what you once were. Here a westbound ore train whines down Beaumont Hill for Fontana, ... (more)

"The Logger" is running west to Potlatch where it will join the local from Lewiston and head back to Marshall. #6304 was on lease to Washington & Idaho for quite some time.

Mixed consist going fast. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

SP 4449 and SP&S 700 sit side by side at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, OR.