Photographer unknown. From my collection.

SP 7950-1605-7951-7944-1602-7945, Lordsburg, New Mexico. January 19, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Around a year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a lumber drag from Oregon arrives at Dunsmuir.

A coal train bound for Searles highballs Bealville siding in the Tehachapis.

An Oregon-bound drag of lumber empties descends the grade out of the Tehachapi Mountains at Cliff siding on a hot July 1988 afternoon.

An ex-Southern Railway SD45 is sandwiched by a pair of Southern Pacific SD40T-2s on a Shasta Route lumber drag in summer 1988.

OAKRIDGE OR Oct 31 1978 — Southern Pacific SD45 8963, and its southbound mixed freight. are tied down in this central Oregon community. EMD built the unit (b/n 33660) in May 1968. It was rebuilt... (more)

Union Pacific AC4400CW 6279 shows its heritage as Southern Pacific 248, built by GE in June 1995, and spotted at the UP's Dolores Yard. (Carson, California – October 1, 2008)

Southern Pacific 9758 E/B Intermodal just east of Duran, NM on the Golden State Route on December 16, 1995 with SP 8037 and another SP B39-8E. Storm clouds on the horizon with more snow later in t... (more)

At the Nixon Power Plant. SP 6785 6840 7424 8361 unload a coal train, at a Colorado power plant. The picture really depicts how the Southern Pacific looked the last few years.

A manifest comes into West Colton Yard off the Palmdale Cutoff. Power are a pair of SD40T-2s (SP and DRGW) bookending a MK SD40M-2 rebuild. Oct 25 1995.

The hostlers pull an outbound train forward after putting the head end power on (as seen from Pepper Ave, over West Colton Yard). They will then hop on the helper unit and take up to the other end... (more)

A trio of two kind of new and one brand new eSPee AC4400CWs head towards the Wilmington Wye south of Dolores Yard. October 15 1995.

A westbound Southern Pacific train is holding the main at Mott, waiting for an eastbound train to climb out of the Sacramento River Canyon and clear on the siding in the foreground.

An eastbound doublestack train.