SP 2-8-2 3250 leads an eighty four car eastbound freight at 25 MPH near Selma California in 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

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)

Making the shove back through the Nº 2 pockets for Yard trk-W03 to double it's train CSX Q582-15 (Atlanta,GA-Nashville,TN) is completing it's set-off at Wauhatchie Yard. Q582 will pick up the r... (more)

Bringing up the rear of the World's Fair Daylight, a 13-car train of privately-owned passenger cars – all painted in Daylight red and orange – heading to the 1984 World's Fair in... (more)

Just after sunset, the World's Fair Daylight, a 13-car train pulled by former Southern Pacific GS-4 class 4-8-4 steam locomotive 4449, crosses over Fresno's Belmont Avenue. The train will ... (more)

PORTLAND OR Aug 20 1981 — Southern Pacific SW1500 2645 handles a caboose hop at North Albina Avenue east of Union Pacific’s Albina Yard. Photo by Charles Stookey.

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)

As the Swift RoadRailer highballs the siding at Mott, California, it is less than half an hour from a crew change at Dunsmuir.

Heading to Los Angeles, Southern Pacific GS-4 4449 makes a service stop in Tehachapi after climbing out of the San Joaquin Valley. The low sun this morning creates a mood similar to a plein ai... (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 ten car California-Nevada R.R. Historical Society Excursion is seen at Roseville California on November 30th 1957. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

For reasons unknown SP train number 19, the Klamath, has arrived Gerber California 8 hours & 15 minutes late on July 30th 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

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.