An eastbound UP intermodal train led by a tired-looking Southern Pacific tunnel motor grinds upgrade around Tehachapi Loop. The visiting Conrail power was a nice touch.

This eastbound just gotten a high green after a westbound got in the clear. Picacho Peak is in the background.

The Santa Fe–Southern Pacific merger was an attempted corporate consolidation of two of the major railroads in the Western United States at the time: the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway an... (more)

SF Zephyr arrive at Oakland: My 70's photos:https://www.railpictures.net/album/8659/

FP Set ready: My 70's photos: https://www.railpictures.net/album/8659/

Fighting the steep eastbound grade of San Timoteo Canyon, SP 8693 charges under a signal bridge making good time with gobs of black smoke billowing from her exhaust. What was beautiful to railfans... (more)

Excursion thru Niles Canyon and over Altamont To Sacramento with SP's first passenger Diesel/

Espee's train #98 the COAST DAYLIGHT being serviced and crew change at San Luis Obispo. Alco PA-1 #6063 former Texas & New Orleans (SP)#204 unit renumbered in 1959. Photo taken from my slide coll... (more)

Southern Pacific Fairbanks-Morse H24-66 3031 makes a station stop with train #147 in Sunnyvale on February 3, 1975 before continuing its run to San Francisco. By this late date 3031 was the last o... (more)

Four Alco PA's rev up to yank S.P. Mail 21 west out of the fueling stop at Carlin, Nevada on April 23, 1964.

Southern Pacific SD9 No. 4426 leads a westbound train through Tunnel 2 on Tehachapi Pass above Caliente, California, on March 1, 1988. SP crews and fans fondly called SD9s “Cadillacs.” Trailin... (more)

Just days after being unloaded off a ship from Europe at Houston, Southern Pacific's second generation German Krauss-Maffei diesel hydraulic 9005 is paired up with an F-7 at Eugene, Oregon roundho... (more)

Freshly shopped Alco RS-32 No. 4005 (one of 10 delivered in 1962) and caboose 1060 await passage of a Peninsula commute train at Millbrae. Sister 4009 (still in SP livery) stars in a June 2012 a C... (more)

Just after sunrise, an SP eastbound negotiates the multiple reverse curves at Bealville's west end and heads into the Allard Horseshoe.

The westbound "City of San Francisco" is seen on the Overland Route on its way to Roseville and points west before Amtrak took over