Two N&W C30-7s bracket a Union Pacific SD40-2 as they throttle up a southbound freight leaving Greensboro North Carolina.

HERMOSA WY July 3 1978 — Eastbound Union Pacific DDA40X 6914, Southern Pacific SD45 8888 and an SP EMD blast out of the east portal on track one. EMD built the unit (b/n 34540) in October 1969 a... (more)

A non-clearing eastbound Southern Pacific train holds short of a grade crossing, waiting for a westbound train to arrive at Worden, Oregon.

Three NP passenger locomotives F7A 6511A, F9B 6701B and F7A 6501A has just uncoupled from the passenger cars at St. Paul Union Depot on April 11, 1968. Photo by RR Wallin, from my collection. ... (more)

UP SD45 3635 and three 4 axle EMDs roll their freight across the Pacific Coast (Milwaukee Road) tracks at Black River Jct. south of Seattle as the train heads toward Tacoma and on to Portland, OR.... (more)

Southern Pacific's relief train from Klamath Falls rolls westward near Midland, Oregon. The train was taking the big hook south to help clean up a derailment near Redding, California. Between the ... (more)

Over two and a half years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, you could still see lots of Espee. Having just crossed the Oregon/California state line, a solid set of tunnel motors with ... (more)

PORTLAND OR Aug 20 1981 — Union Pacific SD40-2 3234 and Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8304 have just crossed under I-405 as they haul a mixed freight into Albina Yard. EMD built the unit (b/n 72684-3... (more)

BLUE CUT CA Sept 7 1983 — Union Pacific SD40-2 3474 rolls through Blue Cut in Cajon Pass. EMD built the unit (b/n 776088-70) in May 1978. My photo.

A trio of Wisconsin Central EMD SD45s get a clear at Duplainville, Wisconsin, and smoke it up as they haul a WC ore train toward Chicago on August, 29, 1992.

SOO 723 and 556 work the small yard on the north side of Waukesha, WI. in May of 1985.

CAJON PASS CA Sept 7 1983 — Union Pacific SD40-2 3720 leads a TOFC-COFC train. EMD built the unit (b/n 796297-62) in February 1980 and retired it on December 28 2000. Corrections, additions welc... (more)

Department of Transportation Test Car.

UP M-10001 is in charge of train 2, the City of Portland (6 cars), at Cheyenne Wyoming on July 7th 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

it's a summer of change, new car, new wife and soon a new assignment. Here 4-unit power off the Southbound "Crescent" is coming off and the three replacements are in the distance at Pea... (more)