A chartered photo freight moves over the South Santiam river with the Albany & Eastern LLW 5399 on point. For more photos and videos of train, follow me on Instagram @j.po_railphotos

In the hole at Oxnard, with "The Borg's" assimilation in full swing, SP 8524 awaits the arrival of Amtrak before continuing its journey westward.

Five days before the discontinuance of the famed "oil cans" daily run over the Tehachapi Pass, SP 8656 leads the train eastbound out of Caliente.

SP 4449 was fired up for the ORHF 10th celebration as OPR 100 leads excursions in the background. Follow me @j.po_railphotos for more photos and videos or trains!

In anticipation of an ICC approval of a AT&SF/SP merger, SP painted 5 of its 89 SD40R's in merger red and yellow. Units 7303, 7310 7357, 7361 and 7384. The 7384 sits in the afternoon sun at Eugen... (more)

Shot from the lower portion of Swarthout Canyon Rd. Cajon Pass, SP 9218 leads a coal train east, on the Palmdale/Colton Cutoff, Fall 1991

A pocket of light peers through the clouds as SP 9793 leads an eastbound freight up Tehachapi pass.

SP 9810 leads and westbound manifest between Goleta and Santa Barbara.

A Southern Pacific GE U33C 8689 rests at the roads yard in the spring of 1979. The SP Had 212 of these units and that was by far the largest fleet

A trio of new Southern Pacific GE C44-9Ws is almost finished climbing Byron Hill with a heavy taconite ore train as it meets a northbound Wisconsin Central freight in the siding at Byron, Wisconsi... (more)

SP 8552 leads a hot intermodal west through the town of Tehachapi a few days after Thanksgiving.

SP 2539 was the first SW1500 painted in the merger red and yellow scheme early in 1986. It was assigned to San Francisco, where this photo was taken on August 23, 1987. This scheme was short li... (more)

No one knew it at the time, but when SP 4449 departed Eugene and climbed the Cascades in June 1992, it was the last time it would ever happen. The Daylight train to the NRHS Convention in San Jose... (more)

The only SP caboose painted for the SPSF merger pauses on a summer evening in 1988 at Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Early sales of EMD SD70Ms from the 70 Series was slow at first, with a lot of floor space at the builder devoted to erecting A.C. traction SD70MACs. One exception was a small order of 25 SD70Ms fo... (more)