Afternoon service. Members of the steam crew at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum perform some afternoon maintenance on their locomotive, after the conclusion of the day's passenger runs.... (more)

Malfunction Junction. On a sunny, warm, Forth of July weekend in 2022, the Western Pacific Railroad Museum's newly restored 0-6-0 #165 rumbles past "Malfunction Junction", with a ... (more)

Steaming again after nearly 70 years! Over the Fourth of July Weekend, 2022, the Western Pacific Railroad Museum held it's first public weekend of steam operations, using the newly restored... (more)

Western Pacific 0-6-0 No. 165 is seen on the loop track at Portola during its first day of public operation. It put on a great show!

UP GP35 789, the former Western Pacific 3009, at Portola, California, on June 14, 1987.

Included in this July 2000 view is a who's who of classic western motive power from Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Western Pacific. Shortly after this photo was taken WP 707 was repainted in... (more)

Milwaukee Road U25B 5057 is no longer part of the Western Pacific Railroad Museum collection at Portola, CA. Having never seen an actual MILW diesel in service (patched SOO "bandit" uni... (more)

California Zephyr power sits in front of a dome car. I believe it is Western Pacific 832 "Silver Hostel", a 1948 "Vista Dome" Lounge Car.

Full SP light package and Kodachrome paint.

Western Pacific Railroad Museum, where you can climb on the equipment (metal gets very hot in the sun)!

Western Pacific Railroad Museums collection of WP GP7s

Executive train with all C&NW equipment at Portola.

The eastbound TOF led by two GP35s and two GP40s routed down the Main out of the WP Portola yard. Photo from my collection, the photographer was not specified.

I ran into into another one of these units this year at the former McCloud railway here: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/704763/ These yellow units were painted this color by US Steel in Pit... (more)

Built in 1952, this AS-616 has regained its former SP number. After leaving the SP system, the unit worked the Oregon and Northwestern, an eastern Oregon lumber railroad until the closing of the m... (more)