A westbound SP merchandise freight passes under the MO 994.0 cantilever signal at Winot, AZ near sunset. Photographer: Emery Gulash. John E. Troxler collection. Kodachrome slide.

EMD 645s and smoke belching tunnels. Exhaust erupts from Tunnel 5 as the mid-train helpers provide 12,000 horsepower to assist the daily "Oil Can" train as it struggles upgrade through ... (more)

SP 8588, a wreck victim from a collision on Cajon Pass, sits quietly in the dead line at Oxnard.

With a friendly wave from the Conductor, EMDX 7021 rolls through Caliente.

SP 8307 eases a Westbound manifest around the horseshoe curve at Caliente.

Southern Pacific imagery on the Modoc Line at Wendel.

SP 4110 is street running with a twelve car Tehachapi, Southern Pacific train 56, in tow at 15 MPH, in 1937. Otto C. Perry photo, from my collection.

The crew on this westbound transfer, hauling cars from the Southern Pacific's Colton Yard to the then-still-fairly-new West Colton Yard, look pretty relaxed as they wait for a Santa Fe westbound t... (more)

SP 9738 leads GTW train 170 onto the single track at Emmons Street, on the north side of Wyandotte, MI. The engineer watches the track ahead as the conductor keeps an eye on his train in the mirro... (more)

A pair of Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs lead an eastbound Union Pacific coal train downgrade and across a wood trestle over Boulder Creek out of Tolland, Colorado. You wouldn’t know it from the ... (more)

SP 8307 leads a westbound manifest at Bealville.

A westbound manifest, lead by two EMDX lease service SD70M's crosses the Tehachapi Creek at Woodford.

Rounding the famed Tehachapi Loop, albeit on the 4800’ long Walong Siding, this Southern Pacific eastbound freight train has another ten miles until it crests the summit of the crossing of the T... (more)

A Southern Pacific Railroad freight prepares to depart the railroad’s West Colton Yard late in the day. SP SD45T-2 9340, SD45 8956, SD45T-2 9228 and SD40 8443 will have the honors of lifting th... (more)

During GGRM’s open house over Labor Day weekend, Southern Pacific P-8 class 2472, built in March of 1921, does a quick blowdown for the crowd.