Back to back A units are in charge of SP train 99, the Coast Daylight, at Glendale California in 1958. Otto Conrad Perry photo, my collection.

mid train helpers shove past Reno station Some more 70s photos https://www.railpictures.net/album/8659/

Commuter Line-up at Cahill St. Station Some more 70s photos https://www.railpictures.net/album/8659/

Electro-Motive Division Tunnel Motor diesels solved a tricky problem: Locomotives operate in all climates, from scorching desert heat to frigid Canadian winters. An ample supply of fresh air is al... (more)

Southern Pacific train 129 departs San Francisco. Some more 70s photos https://www.railpictures.net/album/8659/

Southern Pacific train 131 departs San Francisco. My 70's photos https://www.railpictures.net/album/8659/

In 1929, the official Southern Pacific "Sunset" logo, some ten feet in diameter and made entirely out of leaded glass, was placed high up on the westerly end of the big train shed, overl... (more)

Southern Pacific Railroad owned and operated eleven classes of cab forward steam locomotives. Their AC-12 class of simple articulated 4-8-8-2 cab forward steam locomotives was the last class of s... (more)

Off display and back in the old Central Pacific Shop complex (much of it built in 1968) where the California State Railroad Museum stores and works on a variety of equipment in their collection, i... (more)

Southern Pacific 8313 W/B with a mixed freight just east of Duran, NM on December 21, 1996 with CNW 6862, SP 8241 and SSW 9678. This was soon after the UP merger and most of the units on the Golde... (more)

Southern Pacific 184 waiting in the siding at East Vaughn, NM on the SP on December 16, 1995, with SP 343 with a mixed freight. This I believe is the first SP freight I saw with AC44CW's as the po... (more)

Southern Pacific 328 E/B leads a Texas Coal train out of the Pando Tunnel on the west side of Tennessee Pass on April 9, 1997. This was a Union Pacific coal train with 4 mid train manned helpers a... (more)

Southern Pacific 8609 W/B mixed freight early morning photo in April of 1996 as the sun is rising. The SP 8609 is crossing Cienega Creek along with CSX 2607 & 8628.

Tennessee pass train. SP 7490 leads an eastbound train along the Arkansas River near Texas Creek CO in 1994.

It's almost 48 years ago, the 45s were pure, loud gas hogs, glorious brutes. The ramshackle tower still stood, cabooses were required and the Kaiser ore train traversed the arid countryside with... (more)