A run-though vehicle train off the NS at Kansas City approaches the east end of Roseville Yard after coming over Donner Pass.

An SP eastbound roars into the cut below the Loop.

At sunset, a rainbow of power climbs the 1.0 percent at Shawmut with an eastbound UP stack train. In the background are the rugged and snake-filled Maricopa Mountains.

Just as the sun rises in the northeast, the head end of SP 9182 East comes out of the Alllard Horseshoe, while its rear helper is still in the middle of the big curve. Below is the beautiful pastu... (more)

An eastbound manifest makes its way through Elkhorn Slough under a sunny, cloud-filled sky.

The engineer working Southern Pacific's Roper to Grand Junction manifest freight looks over his shoulder and inspects his train passing through Riverton with 70 cars on Aug. 26, 1994.

An SP manifest grinds up hill in run 8 past the Santa Fe Tunnel 1 on Cajon Pass. The SP and tunnel are now distant memories.

We Have All Been Here Before

When many railfans think of the Southern Pacific, they think of dirty, run-down locomotives. But this was generally not the case with the SP - not until... (more)

Bessemer & Lake Erie 905, 866, and 901 leads the ore train south across the huge bridge over the Allegheny River at Harmar Township, Pennsylvania.

Cotton Belt Incognito

Southern Pacific SD45T-2 9392, SP SD45 7477 and a Cotton Belt GP60 lead a westbound manifest through Union Pacific's Puente Junction in the City of Industry, Ca... (more)

A battered veteran of mountain railroading climbs Tennessee Pass. While the coal trains got the new AC4400s, drag freights got whatever could be thrown together. On this train a mixed lash-up of... (more)

In another view of SP9197 east, a couple of Whitewater Building Materials Corp. of Grand Junction, Colorado hoppers are in the foreground of this picture. The cars are notable in that Trainworx r... (more)

SD45T-2 SP9197 leads 2 more tunnel motors and a GP40-2 thru the Mitchell Curves. The new coat of paint on the leader is already covered in a layer of tunnel grime. The big 20 cylinder SP9197 was... (more)