SP166 leads the charge at Stillwater. The grade here abruptly changes from a knuckle breaking 3% too a 'level' 1%. 39,600 H.P. are needed to lift 13,000+ tons over the Continental Divide at Tenne... (more)
The "Oil Cans" (BKDOU, Bakersfield to Dolores CA unit train) passes up a heavy lumber drag at Cable, a few miles west of the town of Tehachapi. Head end power is an SD40T-2 and five fla... (more)
A Southern Pacific coal train heads eastbound through Warren Curve west of Mojave, California, on March 8, 1996. Three GE AC4400CWs power the train, led by SP No. 198.
Southern Pacific Fairbanks-Morse H24-66 3031 makes a station stop with train #147 in Sunnyvale on February 3, 1975 before continuing its run to San Francisco. By this late date 3031 was the last o... (more)