The sun is beginning to set as Cotton Belt 9278 slowly leads a long eastbound manifest past the El Casco crossovers in San Timoteo Canyon.

Cotton Belt 9059 is desperately in need of going through the wash racks as it sits in a spur track in Palmdale, California. Unless it was new or a rebuilt engine, it was rather difficult to find a... (more)

Cotton Belt, SSW 9673 E/B mixed freight waits in the siding at Vaughn, NM on January 13, 1995 for a Southern Pacific W/B Intermodal. The SSW 9673 also had SSW 9682, SP 8566 and 7333 in this consis... (more)

Inside the cab of Cotton Belt GP30 #5006 at the Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff.

Fairly new and just off a recent CR train. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collection.

I shot a lot of SP trains around Galesburg in the mid-90s. One thing I didn't get leading was these Colt Belt Dash 8s. Here, a pair of them lead a westbound SP train over the ATSF Chili Sub toward... (more)

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)

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

Around a year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a lumber drag from Oregon arrives at Dunsmuir.

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

St. Louis Southwestern, SSW GP40M-2 7290 leads a eastbound stack train at, Meriden, Illinois. June 14, 1993. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © History on the SSW 7290 Built as a GP40 WRA 707> SBD 6795> CSX... (more)

I shot a lot of SP trains around Galesburg in the mid-90s. One thing I didn't get leading were these Colt Belt Dash 8s. Here, a pair of them lead a westbound SP train over the ATSF Chili Sub towar... (more)

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.