A year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a train on the Shasta Route does not display any indication of the change.

Cotton Belt 60' flat car 854668, carrying a pair of M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), was built by Greenville Steel Car in April 1969. The Cotton Belt's parent company, Southern Pacifi... (more)

Returning to Portland after overnighting in Redding, the "Shasta Daylight 1990" excursion special passes Grass Lake.

A westbound Shasta Route train approaches Bray, California on Memorial Day weekend 1994.

As has been mentioned in captions to other images of Conrail TV-556, this sought-after train typically arrived in New Jersey on Thursdays, and holidays were no exception. So, on Thanksgiving Day ... (more)

Rolling east on Southern Pacific’s West Colton Division, Cotton Belt GP35 6505 (ex-SSW 765) and SP GP9R 3880 (ex-SP GP9 3720, née-SP GP9 5884) meet a westbound, led by SP SD45T-2 9216, holding ... (more)

After switching local industries, the crew on Cotton Belt 7607 takes a dinner break in Huntington Beach.

Forty-Three Years Ago at SP's West Colton Yard Late in the afternoon, a Southern Pacific freight passes local landmark Slover Mountain as arrives at the railroad's West Colton Yar... (more)

The day after Thanksgiving 29-plus years ago (as of the date this image was posted), a group of us took a run down to "91 Bay", Conrail's locomotive service facility in Oak Island Yard t... (more)

Using trackage rights on the BN from KC-Chicago, a SP intermodal train travels east thru the outskirts of Galesburg IL.

A westbound manifest rolls through the Willamette Valley in late summer 1996. Union Pacific was four days away.

Nearly three years after the pair were delivered by builder Alco, wearing the Daylight paint, the St. Louis Southwestern's PA's 300 and 301 were well established at work in the Lone Star state... (more)

SSW 8085 leads a solid GE consist with an eastbound intermodal train on the Burlington Northern past the old Depot in Aurora Illinois, entering the famed triple track racetrack into Chicago.

SSW 9630 leads a manifest train through the reverse curves in San Timoteo Canyon.

After Union Pacific merged Southern Pacific, it continued to operate a Z train between Denver and Salt Lake City over the Moffat Line for several years before eventually moving it to the Overland ... (more)