WPRRM Collection

Locomotives that once pulled the California Zephyr rest at the Portola Railroad Museum.

An eastbound hotshot departs Portola. In just a few miles, the pines will give way to the sagebrush of the Great Basin deserts.

UP's United Way locomotive, SD40-2 No. 3300, idles on the point of an STEK (Stockton, CA to Elko Nevada manifest) in the yard at Portola, CA. It's the 4th of July, and Portola's Railroad Museum ha... (more)

Western Pacific GE U30B's 766, 767, 762 at Portola, California. No photographer listed on slide.

Late on a summer evening, the B&L Local heads for the Sierra Pacific mill in Loyalton. This is all gone now.

Having arrived early this morning, UP's United Way locomotive idles in the yard on the point of an STEK (Stockton, CA to Elko, NV manifest).

A Roger Puta Photograph

A quintet of UP U30Cs departs Portola with an eastbound WP manifest headed for Salt Lake.

WP 921D during test run in Portola Ca.

Built by Disney, WP 804-A is a faux FP-7 built from the scrapped cab of UP 928, an E-8. In August 2011, the train which housed an ice cream shop was removed and donated to the Western Pacific Rail... (more)

A new Dead Line has been formed at Portola, California. The small UP yard is on the former Western Pacific line through the High Sierras. The line is either C40-8 or SD60 engines.

Power from the California Zephyr fades away in Portola

After being overhauled, UP 9532 and 9282 have been stored here at the Portola Railroad Museum to avoid vandalism to these "like new" locomotives until traffic picks up. Apparently 9532 s... (more)

Orange and Silver, Geeps and Covered Wagons