A heavy westbound Modoc Line train enters the farmlands of the Klamath Basin near Copic.

CAJON PASS CA Sept 6 1983 — Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8340 leads a mixed freight. My photo.

An eastbound train on the Modoc Line has arrived at Wendel, where the midtrain helpers will be set out. Southern Pacific had less than a month of independence remaining.

The crew on this westbound transfer, hauling cars from the Southern Pacific's Colton Yard to the then-still-fairly-new West Colton Yard, look pretty relaxed as they wait for a Santa Fe westbound t... (more)

No stop is required here anymore as a SP stack train heads east by the water tower at Red Rock.

Rounding the famed Tehachapi Loop, albeit on the 4800’ long Walong Siding, this Southern Pacific eastbound freight train has another ten miles until it crests the summit of the crossing of the T... (more)

SP 8266 leads an eastbound doublestack through San Timoteo Canyon as it crossed the San Timoteo Canyon Road. It looks like the conductor has taped some newspaper on his side of the windshield t... (more)

SP 8266, along with an SD-45 and three more tunnel motors, leads an eastbound doublestack through San Timoteo Canyon near the El Casco Lakes. It looks like the conductor has taped some newspaper ... (more)

On the "Sunset Route".

Rio Grande EMD SD45 5331 is westbound at Desert i on a fine afternoon in the spring of 1979.

When I first visited the USA toghether with a friend in summer 1991, we stopped our camping bus at the Tennessee pass railway of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad overnight. In the mornin... (more)

Southern Pacific EMD GP9 No. 3392 pauses between tasks on a local freight at Stockton, California, on March 6, 1994. Built as SP No. 5653 in March 1956, it still retains much of the look of a sta... (more)

With the Warner Mountains for a backdrop, an eastbound manifest on the Modoc Line exits Indian Camp Loop. Earlier in the month, Modoc trackage between Alturas and Wendel had been reactivated follo... (more)

An eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line descends Viewland Hill into the Honey Lake Valley. The train will stop for a crew change at Wendel in less than ten minutes.

Siskiyou Line SDs lay over at the Medford depot on a Saturday afternoon.