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

Southern Pacific 794 was built in August 1916 by the American Locomotive Works. It is on static display outside Sunset Station in downtown San Antonio. There have been hopes to restore this locomo... (more)

Sunset Route. On the night of July 18, 2020, cosmetically restored Southern Pacific Railroad (née-Texas & New Orleans Railroad) 2-8-2 794 (Alco, 1916) sits at the San Antonio Railroad Heri... (more)

SP, Southern Pacific 9308-UP 9351 with a westbound at Soldier Summit, Utah. April 19, 1998. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

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

Southern Pacific, SP SD45T-2 9254, with a westbound rack train on the D&RGW's Tennessee Pass Route, Minturn, Colorado. May 10, 1996. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Southern Pacific, SP MP15 2696, at SP's Englewood Yard Houston, Texas. September 13, 1982. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo 2696 built, 12/1974

A weathered Southern Pacific MP15AC idles near the locomotive facility at Englewood Yard in Houston, TX. The roof of Tower 68 can be seen in the distance at right. It was razed in 2010.

SP 9282 west passes through the small community of Guadalupe just south of Victoria, TX on what had been Southern Pacific's Port Lavaca Subdivision. This line was previously part of the Galveston... (more)

A head-on view of SP 9282 west operating on the former Southern Pacific Port Lavaca sub. Track speed must have been relatively low, as I have multiple photos of this train between Victoria and Pl... (more)

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)