Southern Pacific's Chicago to Roper Manifest Freight creeps slowly down Soldier Summit approaching the upper Gilluly horseshoe on Aug. 24, 1996. On the point is speed lettered SD40T-2 No. 8361 fol... (more)
Southern Pacific's Chicago to Roper manifest freight climbs through the Green River Desert approaching Thompson on Sept. 28, 1996.
Looking a little worse for wear in faded 'Kodachrome' paint, SP SD45R No. 7558 leads a Chicago to Roper manifest through Riverton on August 12, 1996.
A big bad 'photo cloud' did its best to spoil my shot of SP's CHROM, but I won! Ha!
I am standing on the 23rd Street overpass right next to the Kansas/Missouri state line sign looking North on the KCT. A SPSCL train, CHROM (Chicago - Roper manifest) with a DRGW geep is stopped o... (more)
The Chicago-Roper manifest is on the Quincy main and headed out of the yard at CP Saluda.
SP Chicago-Roper manifest rolls west at Wyanet on BN trackage rights.
SP run through on the BN hustles south with manifest. 9741 was in the second batch of GP60s ordered by SP.
It's a new year and the inagural run of SP's class unit 8200 and sister on westbound Chicago-Roper--the "chrome" train. Train is leaving Galesburg over BN trackage rights to KC. The fresh engin... (more)
