More efficient passenger power was needed as the PA's and E-units began to rack up the miles, and in the spring of 1967 the SP began taking delivery of ten new 3600 h.p. SDP45s from EMD (3200... (more)

On August 8, 1967 Southern Pacific FP7 6455 and a B-unit arrived with a nine-car No. 99 the Los Angeles-bound Coast Daylight, crossing the ATSF tracks at Mission Junction near the Los Angeles... (more)

SP 7490 leads an eastbound train along the Arkansas River , near Cotopaxi CO. Was this part of the Tennessee Pass?

Some awesome hoarfrost is coating everything around Galesburg on this crisp December morning in 1992. A westbound SP train is slowing down for the approach to Galesburg with the typical 4-unit set... (more)

A quartet of Tunnel Motors lead an eastbound Southern Pacific freight as it departs San Luis Obispo with California's Coast Range mountains (and a vineyard) for a backdrop. The power is SP SD40T-... (more)

Southern Pacific SW1500s 2552 and 2632, now owned by Union Pacific, work the UP's Huntington Beach Local. These two "Cruds" have cut a Centerflow covered hopper off their train and are ... (more)

For many decades, one of the places to watch trains in southern California was Colton Tower, alongside Colton Crossing, where the Southern Pacific Railroad's "Sunset Route" crosse... (more)

This one stood out. It was clean! Does this classify as a special scheme these days?

Southern Pacific MP15AC 2756 is, by this date, no longer an SP locomotive, as the SP was acquired by the Union Pacific in 1996, nine years previous to this date. Built by General Motors Electro-M... (more)

SP, Southern Pacific 7660- 7644- 7859, with an eastbound container train on the Sunset Route crossing over Greens Bayou at Houmont Park, Texas. May 7, 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Southern Pacific AC44 114-144-349 leads a Geneva Ore train on the D&RGW Tennessee Pass line at Balltown, Colorado. May 10, 1996. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

SP 7950-1605-7951-7944-1602-7945, Lordsburg, New Mexico. January 19, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Southern Pacific, SP SD45T-2 9254, with a westbound rack train on the D&RGW's Tennessee Pass Route, Minturn, Colorado. May 10, 1996. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

SSW, Cotton Belt 9161 leads a eastbound over the San Pedro River at Benson, Arizona. December 13, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Southern Pacific 9758 E/B Intermodal just east of Duran, NM on the Golden State Route on December 16, 1995 with SP 8037 and another SP B39-8E. Storm clouds on the horizon with more snow later in t... (more)