An extra Newberg Turn on Southern Pacific's Newberg Branch enters its namesake city on a clear winter Sunday. Startup of the Willamette & Pacific, which would end SP movements into Newberg on th... (more)

Southern Pacific's Whiteson Flyer arrives at Newberg on a sunny winter Saturday. Smurfit Newsprint's ex-Rock Island switcher is waiting for empties. Once the SP train completes its setout, the swi... (more)

Southern Pacific train 2-834, the second section of an eastbound (compass south) freight that originated in Santa Barbara and was bound for Los Angeles Yard, passes by the Chatsworth station, in t... (more)

A westbound freight passes the boarded up station at the former air base, used by Ft. Bliss. Odd name.

One of Southern Pacific’s "Haulers," short-haul freights that transferred cars between yards, large or small, departed the railroad’s West Colton Yard eastbound, as all departures do... (more)

My all-time favorite F unit in its finest form, lights, dynamic brakes, icebreakers and snow plows, reprising its former role, leading the "San Francisco Zephyr".

The hydraulic wings of a spreader work great to push snow far back from the track. With the blades on the nose adjusted to push snow all to one side, Southern Pacific spreader MW 4034 cleans wet s... (more)

The UP has a coal branch that ran south of Grand Junction, CO, out to Hawksnet, CO. The branch is 91 miles long and was built in 1902. The DRGW/SP/UP gained access to a few mines like Bowie and So... (more)

Back in 1999 SP-AC power was still common thing on the coal trains that came off the Moffat route. Here the train is snaking their way towards Denver as they pass the HBD at MP 22 near Blue Mounta... (more)

Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 201 rests on the pass-through track from the turntable as a shop employee walks between the two roundhouse buildings at the locomotive facility of Wisconsin Centra... (more)

Southern Pacific No. 3100 and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe No. 108 take there place just outside the Southern California Railway Museum's diesel "barn" for an impromptu photo session bene... (more)

A trio of Southern Pacific EMDs leads an autorack train out of the BN's Cicero Yard. Tom Golden photo.

Stars Under The Stars. Posed together at the Southern California Railway Museum beneath the night sky are SP 3100 (U25B), ATSF 108 (FP45) and the ATSF 999076. While COVID-19 might have put ... (more)

The sun has yet to rise high enough to clear the San Gorgonio Mountains to the east as a Southern Pacific "Hauler" departs the railroad’s West Colton Yard. This train has the usual SP... (more)

Thunder on Tennessee Pass
The summer monsoons in Colorado’s high country have arrived again on the afternoon of August 2, 1996, as an eastbound Southern Pacific freight that has been ... (more)