Westbound at Glendale California with thirty cars. Otto's speed estimate was 30 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Southern Pacific Railroad SD70M 9809 was built by General Motors Locomotive Group in June 1994, one of 25 of these locomotives acquired by the SP. This fleet proved to be a great purchase by the ... (more)

Some awesome hoarfrost is coating everything around Galesburg on this crisp December morning in 1992. An eastbound SP train hammers out of Galesburg. The train is on the BN's 2nd Sub and just pass... (more)

SP 4414 is captured with rods down while traversing the crossovers in Los Angeles. This is Southern Pacific train number two, the Sunset Limited. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A Ogden to Roper (Rio Grande Salt Lake) train rolls through north end of Union Pacific's Salt Lake Cities North Yard. This is the Southern Pacific we got to see in Utah. Drag freights, with older ... (more)

A quartet of Tunnel Motors lead an eastbound Southern Pacific freight as it departs San Luis Obispo with California's Coast Range mountains (and a vineyard) for a backdrop. The power is SP SD40T-... (more)

Southern Pacific SW1500s 2552 and 2632, now owned by Union Pacific, work the UP's Huntington Beach Local. These two "Cruds" have cut a Centerflow covered hopper off their train and are ... (more)

For many decades, one of the places to watch trains in southern California was Colton Tower, alongside Colton Crossing, where the Southern Pacific Railroad's "Sunset Route" crosse... (more)

One of the notoriously heavy gravel trains which delighted railfans is heading east in the big yard.

One of the units most unloved by its owners and crews, always first to go into storage or out on lease or so it seemed, they sure sounded good anyway.

Southern Pacific Alco RS-6 switcher #1203, painted as Green Bay Route #106, pulls a small two car train of tourists around the loop track at the National Railroad Museum in the Green Bay suburb of... (more)

Southern Pacific MP15AC 2756 is, by this date, no longer an SP locomotive, as the SP was acquired by the Union Pacific in 1996, nine years previous to this date. Built by General Motors Electro-M... (more)

Back in 1978 Morrison-Knudsen rebuilt four GE U25B's with Sulzer prime movers. They gave it a nice flashy daylight type paint scheme never to be repeated. The horsepower was uprated to 2800 and th... (more)

Southern Pacific 7541 leads two Rio Grande pool units and a westbound manifest up the hill towards the summit in Cajon Pass. In the distance above the SP 7541 you can see a four unit helper set p... (more)

Southern Pacific 7333 leads a westbound manifest up the hill towards the summit in Cajon Pass.