Around a year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a lumber drag from Oregon arrives at Dunsmuir.

A coal train bound for Searles highballs Bealville siding in the Tehachapis.

The Salinas Hauler drops off two boxcars at International Paper in Gilroy--the last rail-served customer in town.

Union Pacific SD70M, No. 5218 leads the southbound Guad Local along Rincon Beach in the evenings fading light.

UP, Union Pacific SD40-2's 3647-3787-3227-3534, with a eastbound ore train swing off the AT&SF, and on to the UP at Daggett, California. June 23, 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

An Oregon-bound drag of lumber empties descends the grade out of the Tehachapi Mountains at Cliff siding on a hot July 1988 afternoon.

An ex-Southern Railway SD45 is sandwiched by a pair of Southern Pacific SD40T-2s on a Shasta Route lumber drag in summer 1988.

The Ventura Coastal Mountains are covered with Butter Cups making for a nice background for Union Pacific ES44DC No. 7615 moving westbound with the Local.

UP 6926 leads a northbound MWCRVC between Silverwood and Hiland.

Union Pacific 2-8-0 320 leads a westbound troop train with caboose near Denver Colorado in 1943. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

UP 7113 exits Tunnel 3 at Bealville on the rear of the ZLCTM.

UP 4265 at Mojave.

Equipped for hood first running, UP GP62 1001 leads a local bound for Turlock Ca.

OAKRIDGE OR Oct 31 1978 — Southern Pacific SD45 8963, and its southbound mixed freight. are tied down in this central Oregon community. EMD built the unit (b/n 33660) in May 1968. It was rebuilt... (more)

Union Pacific GP38-2 609 was built in June 1980 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Southern Pacific 4842, and UP SW1500 Y1136 was built by EMD in November 1969 as SP 2552. (Carson Calif... (more)