UP's hot Overland Mail West sweeps through the valleys east of the highest ridges of the Sierra Nevada, with the little town of Doyle in the distance. What a change in scenery this is compared to ... (more)

A flock of Santa Fe Alco S2s and S4s gathers on the turntable tracks at Santa Fe's roundhouse in Bakersfield, CA.

Two northbound freights, one led by Dash 9 5510, and the other by ES44DC 7669, pause at the northbound fuel racks for a crew change and to have their fuel tanks topped off.

EMD SD45X demonstrator is the trailing unit of a westbound SP manifest departing Roseville Yard at Antelope. The SP purchased these demos, renumbering this one SP 9503. The 45Xs, like the DDA40Xs,... (more)

In October 1973, two EMDs idles next to each other modeling two variations of Western Pacific's paint schemes. No. 3010's scheme was an attempt to raise the profile of the railroad by putting its ... (more)

DD35A 80 rests outside UP's Portland Shops.

A loaded coal train fresh from the Orin Line heads for Gillette and points west.

Twenty-minute exposure captures east- and westbound trains on the Loop under moonlight. Kodachrome 25 film.

Ex-CB&Q E8 No. 9949 makes a station stop at Vancouver on the point of a Portland-Seattle train. Note the crew talking with someone on the platform.

MLW M420TRs back down from the FCP's shops to the passenger station to couple onto today's train No. 1.

Two switchers work Eugene Yard, an Alco Alligator and a Baldwin S12, the former working the hump.

Various EMDs are under repair at the Roseville Shops.

An EMD SD45 leads an SP westbound out of tunnel 5. This is the sight of much damage caused by the 7.3 earthquake of 1952. Tunnel 5 was contorted and tunnel 4 destroyed, the latter being bypassed a... (more)

UP locomotive mechanics prepare to set SP GP60 No. 9743 atop a pair of steel sawhorses in the center of the Burnham Shops. At immediate right are the rebuilt trucks that the four-axle locomotive w... (more)

EMD, GE, and a slough of Alcos team up to lift an eastbound manifest up the grade at James.