SP steam engine repainted into Grapevine Vintage RR colors.

Just two-and-a-half years old, Southern Pacific U33C has been stripped to its bare bones and sits on a whisker track at Southern Pacific's Taylor Yard, in Los Angeles CA, due to being a bit too cl... (more)

What a Recession Looks Like

A visit to Southern Pacific's primary yard and shop complex in Los Angeles, Taylor Yard (located just north of downtown), during the 1973-1975 recessi... (more)

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)

Southern Pacific’s Costa Mesa local is seen returning on Metrolink's Orange Sub, which is uses from near the Anaheim Amtrak station to just beyond the Santa Ana passenger station, a distance of ... (more)

A long tight zoom on a westbound at Shawmut in the early morning.

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

A westbound at Shawmut AZ with monsoon storm clouds building to the northeast.

This 4-8-8-2 articulated locomotive, number 4211, was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Southern Pacific Railroad. The total engine and tender weight was a whopping 1,051,200 lbs., a... (more)

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)

Double Header steam excursion at Centralia, Washington

The engineer on a westbound Union Pacific freight waves to the conductor of a UP local who is performing a "roll by" inspection as the freight passes through the Mojave Desert behind SP ... (more)

Back in the early 1980s, after it completed its duty hauling the American Freedom Train in the mid-70s, Southern Pacific GS-4 class 4-8-4 4449 was restored to its colorful Southern Pacific Dayl... (more)

Southern Pacific train 1-BACI-T-2-05, an intermodal train which originated in Oakland CA and is headed to southern California's City of Industry (yes, that is the city's full name!), passes by the... (more)

Three-year-and-seven-month-old Southern Pacific Railroad GP40-2 7608 sits in the railroad's Taylor Yard between runs. (Los Angeles, California – September 21, 1981)