CAJON Pass CA Sept 6 1983 — With a wave from the left side Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8386 handles helper duties in the Pass. Photo by Charles Stookey

UP Turlock local LRS44R passes through Modesto Ca.

Union Pacific 3GS21B Y2723 is a low-emissions diesel genset locomotive built by National Railway Equipment (NRE) at their Mount Vernon shops in Southern Illinois. Instead of a single prime mover, ... (more)

A Southern Pacific freight heads west (which in this case is north, but on the SP anything heading toward San Francisco is westbound), passing the carrier’s Taylor Yard, its main yard in Los Ang... (more)

UP 4-10-2 8800 leads 57 cars eastbound at 25 MPH near Yermo California in 1933. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Around a year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a lumber drag from Oregon arrives at Dunsmuir.

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

The Salinas Hauler drops off two boxcars at International Paper in Gilroy--the last rail-served customer in town.

Union Pacific SD70M, No. 5218 leads the southbound Guad Local along Rincon Beach in the evenings fading light.

UP, Union Pacific SD40-2's 3647-3787-3227-3534, with a eastbound ore train swing off the AT&SF, and on to the UP at Daggett, California. June 23, 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

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.

The Ventura Coastal Mountains are covered with Butter Cups making for a nice background for Union Pacific ES44DC No. 7615 moving westbound with the Local.

UP 6926 leads a northbound MWCRVC between Silverwood and Hiland.

Union Pacific 2-8-0 320 leads a westbound troop train with caboose near Denver Colorado in 1943. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.