Southern Pacific 7319 slowly leads a long manifest through the reverse curve as it heads east up San Timoteo Canyon.

Southern Pacific 2547 takes a boxcar and caboose towards the SP yard in Anaheim, California.

More efficient passenger power was needed as the PA's and E-units began to rack up the miles, and in the spring of 1967 the SP began taking delivery of ten new 3600 h.p. SDP45s from EMD (3200... (more)

On August 8, 1967 Southern Pacific FP7 6455 and a B-unit arrived with a nine-car No. 99 the Los Angeles-bound Coast Daylight, crossing the ATSF tracks at Mission Junction near the Los Angeles... (more)

SP 7490 leads an eastbound train along the Arkansas River , near Cotopaxi CO. Was this part of the Tennessee Pass?

A throwback to 2023. This was the celebration for the completion and restoration of the Brooklyn Yard turntable. SP 4449 takes a spin around.

Westbound at Glendale California with thirty cars. Otto's speed estimate was 30 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Southern Pacific Railroad SD70M 9809 was built by General Motors Locomotive Group in June 1994, one of 25 of these locomotives acquired by the SP. This fleet proved to be a great purchase by the ... (more)

Some awesome hoarfrost is coating everything around Galesburg on this crisp December morning in 1992. An eastbound SP train hammers out of Galesburg. The train is on the BN's 2nd Sub and just pass... (more)

SP 4414 is captured with rods down while traversing the crossovers in Los Angeles. This is Southern Pacific train number two, the Sunset Limited. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A Ogden to Roper (Rio Grande Salt Lake) train rolls through north end of Union Pacific's Salt Lake Cities North Yard. This is the Southern Pacific we got to see in Utah. Drag freights, with older ... (more)

A quartet of Tunnel Motors lead an eastbound Southern Pacific freight as it departs San Luis Obispo with California's Coast Range mountains (and a vineyard) for a backdrop. The power is SP SD40T-... (more)

Southern Pacific SW1500s 2552 and 2632, now owned by Union Pacific, work the UP's Huntington Beach Local. These two "Cruds" have cut a Centerflow covered hopper off their train and are ... (more)

For many decades, one of the places to watch trains in southern California was Colton Tower, alongside Colton Crossing, where the Southern Pacific Railroad's "Sunset Route" crosse... (more)

One of the notoriously heavy gravel trains which delighted railfans is heading east in the big yard.