The sun has yet to rise high enough to clear the San Gorgonio Mountains to the east as a Southern Pacific "Hauler" departs the railroad’s West Colton Yard. This train has the usual SP... (more)
Southern Pacific’s Bicentennial caboose, SP 1776, brings up the rear of a westbound freight at Hiland, the summit of SP’s crossing of Cajon Pass. Built in December 1966, this car was repainte... (more)
A westbound (heading compass north) Southern Pacific intermodal train passes over Gaviota Creek, led by Cotton Belt GP60 9626, SP SD45R 7484, SP SD45T-2 9242 and SP SD40T-2 8327. As should be obv... (more)
Sitting in the siding waiting for a meet at Guasti, California, is a westbound Southern Pacific freight train, with SP GP40-2 7661, B30-7 7863 and a Cotton Belt GP40-2 for power. (December 21, 198... (more)
A trio of Southern Pacific SD7s lead a transfer run as it departs Santa Fe’s Hobart Yard, in Vernon (southeast of downtown Los Angeles) with train bound for SP's Taylor Yard, northeast of downto... (more)
Southern Pacific’s Buena Park Local, having picked up a cut of cars (40’ box cars!), departs Buena Park, California, in April 1973. A trio of GP9s, of which SP owned over 300, are up front â€... (more)
A Southern Pacific freight train, with SP SD45 9090 on the head end, holds the main at Bealville, in California’s Tehachapi Pass, on March 19, 1978. While the westbound waits for its meet with ... (more)
On a hot, muggy August day, Southern Pacific SD45R 7406 brings an intermodal train into Tucumcari, New Mexico. Tucumcari used to be the interchange between the SP and the Rock Island. When the R... (more)
Cotton Belt GP35 6515, SP GP35 6582, SP U33C 8706 and SP SD40 8409 (note the yellow handrails on the 6515, typical of Cotton Belt power in the 1960s) at the Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard on ... (more)
