A westbound Southern Pacific taconite ore train begins the steep three-percent descent of Tennessee Pass as it exits the summit tunnel east of Mitchell, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 2, 199... (more)

A couple Southern Pacific AC4400CW's 349 341 haul a manifest over the ex Rio Grande main. Price River Canyon.

SP SD40T-2 8288, D&RGW SD45 5329, SP SD45-T2 9309 and SD40-T2 8354 are grinding up Cajon Pass. Sullivan's Curve is in the background.

SP 9010, the last surviving Krauss-Maffei rolls by East Sunol along Pleasanton-Sunol Rd between Sunol and Hearst.

Classic Southern Pacific, working on Tehachapi, with a CSX friend in the mix.

Almost 4 years after the UP/SP merger, no much has changed on Beaumont Hill in this scene A UP C44-9W leads a UP manifest under the searchlight signal bridge in Ordway, CA. The lead unit would be ... (more)

Somehow, though SP had hundreds, the U boats always seemed like rarities. I guess it was because they were first things stored, disliked by crews, etc. This one arriving from the Bay Area has mi... (more)

Newly married and off to a new career in California and thrilled to see SP in it's native land. Back in the day when large crews decorated the end platforms and Alcos were rather commonplace.

Photographer unknown, from my collection.

A few SP GP-9s were built without dynamic brakes. They ended up in Bay Area Commuter service. This one has just finished up on train #142.

A Roper to Ogden Southern Pacific train, skirts Union Pacific's North Yard, on the Rio Grande runner. It's sad that normal sights like this, are all part of history.

A big old SD45-T2 on a work train. Not something I'm use to seeing everyday.

Southern California’s fair weather allowed the Southern Pacific Railroad to perform some repairs outdoors on the whisker tracks around the turntable at LA’s Taylor Yard. On a typically overca... (more)

No one was happy, when a freshly shopped SP 7308 was added to the front end of the 4449 Daylight for its trip over Tehachapi. There were a lot of angry railfan's that day. But looking at the pictu... (more)

A westbound train on the Siskiyou Line takes siding to meet an eastbound at Gazelle.