When I first visited the USA toghether with a friend in summer 1991, we stopped our camping bus at the Tennessee pass railway of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad overnight. In the mornin... (more)

Southern Pacific EMD GP9 No. 3392 pauses between tasks on a local freight at Stockton, California, on March 6, 1994. Built as SP No. 5653 in March 1956, it still retains much of the look of a sta... (more)

With the Warner Mountains for a backdrop, an eastbound manifest on the Modoc Line exits Indian Camp Loop. Earlier in the month, Modoc trackage between Alturas and Wendel had been reactivated follo... (more)

An eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line descends Viewland Hill into the Honey Lake Valley. The train will stop for a crew change at Wendel in less than ten minutes.

Siskiyou Line SDs lay over at the Medford depot on a Saturday afternoon.

Forest fire smoke dominates the high desert as an eastbound Modoc Line train rolls along US 395 near Termo. Both the road power and helper can be seen as this lumber drag curves through the sagebr... (more)

A quartet of Rio Grande Tunnel Motors bask in the lights of the fuel track at Union Pacific’s Helper Yard locomotive facility on the eve of July 26, 2002.

Climbing out of California’s San Joaquin Valley is a Southern Pacific freight with SP SD40T-2 8505, SP SD40 7328, Cotton Belt SD45 8973 and an SD45T-2 providing the muscle to defy gravity and ge... (more)

On August 2, 1996, Southern Pacific’s westbound KCOAF (Kansas City to Oakland Forwarder) has just arrived at Colorado’s scenic Tennessee Pass. Led by EMD SD40M-2 No. 8650 (still looking like a... (more)

One of the first eastbound trains on the Modoc Line after the SP/DRGW merger nears a crew change at Wendel, California.

Parked in the middle of the yard, a pair of SP ACs await their next assignment. From here, they could either head toward Fresno, Bakersfield, and Tehachapi Pass. up the East Valley Line toward Ore... (more)

On Labor Day 1988, an eastbound SP drag takes siding for Amtrak 11 on the south side of Albany. At the time, it was common for SP to use first generation power on trains in the Willamette Valley b... (more)

Arrival in the Hollister yard, at one time the track went as far as Tres Pinos