Ready to climb Donner Pass.

Westbound freight rolls down towards Yuba Gap.

Eastbound freight emerges from the wooden snowshed at Norden.

Twilight on the diamond at Stockton Tower.

Southern Pacific's oldest passenger GP9, SP 3000, is coupled with passenger SP GP9 3009. Photographed on August 14, 1973, at the 3rd and Townsend passenger station in San Francisco, California, t... (more)

Southern Pacific’s RVSAM freight climbs Tennessee Pass on the morning of August 1, 1996. The eastbound train is working its way out of the canyon between Redcliff and Pando, Colorado, and is going... (more)

The Shasta Daylight is burning up the Cal P near Elmira on a hot summer day in 1956. This image was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

A westbound Southern Pacific piggyback train passes Redwood Jct. Tower sometime in the 1950s. This image on SP's San Francisco Subdivision was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

Eastbound SP train climbing Beaumont Hill through San Timotao Canyon near El Casco

Imagine it's 1960. The Southern Pacific narrow gauge is on its last legs, so you decide to go photograph it on Washington's birthday. You're going to drive to the Owens Valley and chase the train ... (more)

An excursion on Southern Pacific's Owens Valley narrow gauge line departs Laws on a fall afternoon in 1955. Today, SP locomotive 9 is on display at the Laws Railroad Museum. This image was recorde... (more)

Westbound climbing Donner Pass near Truckee

Carrying on the Southern Pacific legacy and None the worse for wear the old War Horse Southern Pacific GP60 no. 1053 returns from swapping cars in Santa Paula Ca. The Oxnard local rolls along Bri... (more)

A coal load tops the 3% section below Pando on Tennessee Pass. The train is struggling against multiple curves some as tight as 12 degrees at Stillwater under a steady light rain. This location w... (more)

Southern Pacific FP7 6453 lead the Coast Daylight south near San Francisco, passing a commuter train heading into the city. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo