SP166 leads the charge at Stillwater. The grade here abruptly changes from a knuckle breaking 3% too a 'level' 1%. 39,600 H.P. are needed to lift 13,000+ tons over the Continental Divide at Tenne... (more)

SP186, and two other motors crawl towards the Continental Divide. The train is twisting thru severe curvature and the sound of steel on steel is deafening..... It is this rail-fans perspective tha... (more)

Westbound SP train climbing Cajon Pass near Canyon siding

Westbound SP train in Tehachapi's East end Walong siding

Four tunnel motors haul a grain train through Little 10 Curve all the while climbing the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies en-route to Fresno, CA. Scanned from a Kodachrome slide.

The "Oil Cans" (BKDOU, Bakersfield to Dolores CA unit train) passes up a heavy lumber drag at Cable, a few miles west of the town of Tehachapi. Head end power is an SD40T-2 and five fla... (more)

The "Oil Cans" (BKDOU, Bakersfield to Dolores CA unit train) climbs the grade at Bealville in the Tehachapi Mountains. Head end power is an SD40T-2 and five flared SD45s.

Eastbound SP train passing Hiland siding about to descend Cajon Pass

Three SP AC4400s are having no trouble going up the 1.1 percent grade of Thompson Hill with what I now think is iron ore for Geneva Steel.

An eastbound Southern Pacific hauler departs the West Colton Yard and rounds the balloon track. (All trains depart eastbound, with the Los Angeles-bound trains rounding this 360º curve to revers... (more)

Months after the arrival of SP's first T-2s, SD45 9088 still sports its experimental elephant ears as it helps bring a westbound down through Newcastle.