Bringing up the markers – literally – on a westbound Southern Pacific freight is SP C50-7 4626. Built by Pacific Car & Foundry from April to August 1978, this bay-window caboose was only few ... (more)

Three years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a southbound UP freight train with a solid set of SP power enters California on the Shasta Route.

A non-clearing eastbound Southern Pacific train holds short of a grade crossing, waiting for a westbound train to arrive at Worden, Oregon.

Southern Pacific's relief train from Klamath Falls rolls westward near Midland, Oregon. The train was taking the big hook south to help clean up a derailment near Redding, California. Between the ... (more)

Over two and a half years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, you could still see lots of Espee. Having just crossed the Oregon/California state line, a solid set of tunnel motors with ... (more)

Led by an SD45R in a fresh coat of SPSF "Kodachrome" paint, a westbound train awaits opposing traffic in Texum siding. Once the mainline is clear, the train will depart Klamath Falls for... (more)

Amtrak's California Zephyr consist includes cars whose letterboards read Union Pacific, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Burlington, Amtrak, and California Zephyr. SP FP7 No. 6456 and two other... (more)

SHERMAN TX (July) 1974 — SP U33C 8683 leads a mixed freight across the diamonds as it crosses the Missouri Pacific. Note the L-shaped windshield. My photo.

(Unknown) WA July 2 2011 — This is my $75 shot of SP (ORHF 4449 in the Columbia River Gorge. The day started out nicely with my arrival at Cooks plenty early. Three hours later I heard 4449 trip... (more)

SP 4449 is being displayed on the recently rebuilt Brooklyn Turntable. The 110 ft locomotive just barley fits on the 1924 built turntable, which overhangs the deck just slightly.

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.