An eastbound Southern Pacific coal train curves through Edwards, Colorado, on September 5, 1995. Located on the Tennessee Pass route, the town of Edwards is about eleven miles west of Minturn in t... (more)

One of the most unusual looking locomotives on Union Pacific at the time heads north on the old Pilot Rock Branch. The train was returning to Pendleton after switching out the shippers in Pilot Ro... (more)

The 2019 Winter Photography Special found me face to face with a neat little narrow gauge ten wheeler. In-between runby's we were allowed to cross the tracks for a different angle. Using my teleph... (more)

All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray… At the corner of 7th and Townsend in downtown San Francisco, California, was the Southern Pacific’s modest facility for servicin... (more)

Saved! SP bay window caboose 4729 has been a longtime fixture at Albina Yard in Portland. The car was gutted early this year of asbestos in preparation for scrapping. Fortunately, it was purchased... (more)

It wasn't unusual for new SP power to pass through Silvis on it's way west. This GP40X caught my eye one day as I was headed home from work at the Silvis shop. I had my camera with me however the... (more)

When my father was in the San Francisco area for business in the 1960s, he often photographed the Northbound Lark before work. The Lark was an overnight train between Los Angeles and San Francisc... (more)

On the morning of July 26, 1996, a Southern Pacific coal train passes through the Missouri Pacific signals on the west side of the town of Haswell, Colorado. SP used the Rio Grande route over Tenn... (more)

When my father had business trips to the Bay area in the 1960s, one of his favorite spots was Pinole, where both the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific skirted San Francisco Bay. Here a GP9 still ... (more)

Well it was almost 9 years after the fact of its merger with the UP however on this day it still proudly wore its SP colors as the 149 leads a CSX rack train north towards Cincinnati.

While the crew eats lunch, an extra Mill City Local is parked at Lebanon on the Mill City Branch. Within a couple of weeks, this line would be operated by the Willamette Valley Railway. Today it i... (more)

An extra Newberg Turn crests Rex Hill in January 1993 on the Newberg Branch. By the end of February, this traffic would be handled by Willamette & Pacific.

Entering the remote Tunnel District east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, is an eastbound Union Pacific coal train threading Tunnel 27 on June 15, 2001. This view looks east down South Boulder Creek and i... (more)

A sudden blizzard occured just when SP 8566 emerged from the wooden snowshed at Norden.

Emerging from the wooden snowshed at Norden.