Southern Pacific GP40-2 7614 leads a freight train passing through San Luis Obispo, on California’s scenic Central Coast. The power for this train includes, besides the GP40-2, SD45s and Tunnel M... (more)

Back in 1996, the Rio Grande was fulfilling its role as a bridge route across the Rockies. The railroad was alive with SP traffic like that shown here at Narrows, Utah. Scanned from a color print.

As the dreaded Y2K approaches, a Union Pacific intermodal train heads east away from civilization, which will collapse into chaos just two days hence! Southern Pacific SD40M-2 8666 leads this tra... (more)

Sitting in the siding waiting for a meet at Guasti, California, is a westbound Southern Pacific freight train, with SP GP40-2 7661, B30-7 7863 and a Cotton Belt GP40-2 for power. (December 21, 198... (more)

A trio of Southern Pacific SD7s lead a transfer run as it departs Santa Fe’s Hobart Yard, in Vernon (southeast of downtown Los Angeles) with train bound for SP's Taylor Yard, northeast of downtown... (more)

Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW leads a westbound Union Pacific coal empty out of Tunnel 18 just east of Crescent, Colorado, on February 17, 2001.

Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8300 leads an eastbound freight past the depot in Tehachapi, California – at milepost 360.5, just 1.9 miles from the summit of the SP’s crossing of the Tehachapi Mountains... (more)

The hills in the Tehachapi Mountains are a golden brown as a Southern Pacific freight rounds the horseshoe curve at Caliente on July 31, 1982. A quartet of SD40T-2 diesels, led by SP 8360, is pro... (more)

SP switch jobs layover early Thanksgiving morning in Roseburg during a rare eight inch snowfall.

SP's Redlands local on the Redlands branch Redlands.

Southern Pacific’s westbound KCOAF (Kansas City to Oakland Forwarder) has just arrived on top of Colorado’s scenic Tennessee Pass, on August 2, 1996. Two GE AC4400CW locomotives from the Minturn h... (more)

Bound for the NRHS Convention in San Jose, SP 4449 climbs the 1% westward grade at Kegg Pit. At the time, no one realized that this would be the last time the Daylight 4-8-4 would go to Californi... (more)

Southern Pacific’s Buena Park Local, having picked up a cut of cars (40’ box cars!), departs Buena Park, California, in April 1973. A trio of GP9s, of which SP owned over 300, are up front – SP 3... (more)

Southern Pacific SW1500 2468 passes the Union Pacific’s mission-style station in Anaheim, California. This SP train, operating on the UP, will shortly cross Lincoln Boulevard and, as it does so, w... (more)

Having recently returned from Amtrak service, all the SDP45 locomotives were being assigned to the commute pool allowing the retirement of the last of the FM Train Masters. ... (more)