After stopping to repair an overheated bearing on one of the driver wheels, SP 4449 starts to move again towards the summit on Cajon Pass. This was the day of the famous race up the pass between ... (more)

SP 18 south with the burn scar from the Goblin Fire along with Pigeon & Turret Peak in the backdrop

Southern Pacific 18 crosses the Animas River at Timber Bridge

Former Rio Grande K-36 Mikado No. 482 is getting an overhaul at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s roundhouse and shop at Durango, Colorado, on August 30, 2021. In the stall next to... (more)

It used to happen everywhere. 9169's engineer leans out to grab orders. The conductor will grab his when the caboose rolls by.

SP 18 heads south past the "New" Twin Bridge in the rain

Southern Pacific 18, loaned out to Durango & Silverton this summer, pulls away from the Silverton depot in an impressive cloud of steam and smoke.

Doubleheading on the highline, just north of Rockwood

Night shoot on the Trains Magazine Extra 493 with SP 18 charter

Built in March of 1944 by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Southern Pacific #4294 earned its keep by pulling freight trains over Donner Pass. Locomotive #4294 was the last of 20 Southern Pacific class AC... (more)

SP 7342 wearing it's Daylight experimental test paint scheme. Is running on the Denver and Rio Grande Western main between Salt Lake and Ogden. This line was washed out during the floods of 1983-1... (more)

Built for San Francisco commuter service, 7602 was one of just three GP40P-2s constructed by EMD. In 1994 the rare diesel was at the head of a northbound CSX freight, coupled to slightly less rar... (more)

Consecutive numbered SD70M's SP 9813, and 9814. Heading north on a Southern Pacific Roper to Ogden train. The pair are passing in front of Union Pacific's North Yards in Salt Lake City. (Tom Elli... (more)

During my first few years railfanning - mostly in AL and GA - I don't think I ever saw a GP20 other than an occasional visit by SP/SSW GP20s on run-through freights via L&N. Work took me to Misso... (more)

Southern Pacific 8559 waits in the helper spur at Loma Linda for another eastbound train to help up Banning Pass.