Passing another train that is tied down in a siding, a westbound Southern Pacific freight, led by Cotton Belt GE B40-8 No. 8080, approaches Tucson at Wilmot, Arizona, on the afternoon of April 21,... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific train has taken the siding at the east end of the Grover Block to await a meet with a westbound freight with SP 8114 leading. This eastbound, heading toward Los Ange... (more)

A set of GP60s leads the LABRF north in the Sacramento Valley. Following the Rio Grande/SP merger four years earlier, the quartet of four axle units heading for the mountainous terrain of the Oreg... (more)

I highly recommend Hill 582 to anyone who has never been there. The locals have put an amazing effort into the evolution of this location. Although I will freely admit Cajon Pass is not a place I ... (more)

Nearly two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, many timeless SP images could still be seen. After switching out the cement plant up at Mountain Gate, the Redding Local returns to ... (more)

A contractor fuels locomotives on a special Amtrak train at Redding, California. The "Shasta Daylight 1990" had run from Portland, Oregon to Redding the previous day. Once the train is r... (more)

The usual high-horsepower SP/SSW four-axle power leads CSX intermodal train 144 as it passes Roanoke Junction. The diverging line originally went to Roanoke, but by the time of the photo had been... (more)

Typical power for this train in the mid-90s, a Cotton Belt GP60 races CSX 145 down the former Western Railway of Alabama toward Montgomery and, eventually, a handoff at NOLA.

"May Gray" has changed into "June Gloom" (low-altitude stratus clouds which form over the cool water of the Pacific Ocean’s California Current, and spread overnight into the ... (more)

41 years separate these EMD products. A brand new Cotton Belt GP60 is at the IHB's service track adjacent to a 1949-built NW2. Tom Golden photo.

As seen from an eastbound auto pacing on U.S. Highway 34 out of Galesburg, Illinois, a speedy Southern Pacific intermodal with Chicago on its radar, sprints through Oneida on Burlington Northernâ€... (more)

A westbound train on the Siskiyou Line rolls across the Shasta Valley, late on a spring afternoon.

Following Brown at Watsonville
Southern Pacific’s Santa Cruz local crosses the Pajaro River and chases a UPS truck up Walker Street in Watsonville, California, on February 6, 1995.

A special Amtrak train from Portland, Oregon to Redding, California has just crossed over the Oregon/California state line on the Shasta Route. The original California Northeastern grade can be se... (more)

The outbound Toledo Hauler has just emerged from tunnel 24, and is crossing a trestle that spans the Yaquina River. Southern Pacific would operate the Toledo Branch for only eight more days befor... (more)