Ex SP B30-7 sits awaiting it's fate in the small town of South Fork, CO, 47 miles west of Alamosa on the old D&RGW Creed Branch.

In 1987-1988, Southern Pacific closed the Modoc Line to through traffic. If the Modoc had been open, this EURGM would have been closing in on Alturas. Instead, the train is crossing Dry Canyon Via... (more)

A quartet of grimy Southern Pacific SDs roll through the Devil's Garden. This area is a lava flow created by eruptions of nearby Mount Shasta.

The Coolidge Turn is diverging from the Sunset Line and is heading north to Coolidge.

Almost two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, the Swift RoadRailer heads for Southern California.

Daily Mulberry, FL-New Orleans, LA mixed with the traditional runthru power from SP. This tradition continued into the UP years, but eventually the train routing was changed and replaced with ano... (more)

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

A Southern Pacific freight heads east along the "beautiful" Los Angeles River on the Union Pacific's Los Angeles Sub, which it uses to head south ("railroad east") through this part of downtown Lo... (more)

After 22 miles of downgrade from the summit near Grass Lake siding, this eastbound intermodal train has hit the Butte Valley floor at Mount Hebron. At the time, doublestacks on the Shasta Route we... (more)

Over two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, an SP unit with patina leads a southbound manifest through the sagebrush plains of Siskiyou County's Butte Valley.

A westbound manifest climbs the grade to tunnel 17 near Dorris, California on Southern Pacific's Black Butte Subdivision.

Nearly three years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a solid set of SP power works the Seattle to Los Angeles Z train.

A non-clearing eastbound holds up the RoadRailer on a cloudless summer morning in the Butte Valley. Lead unit SP 8626 had been built for Chicago Great Western 30 years earlier.

Grimy but still SP
On the morning of April 23, 2002, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train heads downgrade at mile 22.6 at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Clay, Col... (more)

Yes, this is Bliss just outside the fence at the Fort. I hope you've been to Bliss somewhere else 'cause this one ain't so much. WB mixed freight.