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)

This one stood out. It was clean! Does this classify as a special scheme these days?

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)

SP, Southern Pacific 7660- 7644- 7859, with an eastbound container train on the Sunset Route crossing over Greens Bayou at Houmont Park, Texas. May 7, 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Southern Pacific AC44 114-144-349 leads a Geneva Ore train on the D&RGW Tennessee Pass line at Balltown, Colorado. May 10, 1996. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

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

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

SSW, Cotton Belt 9161 leads a eastbound over the San Pedro River at Benson, Arizona. December 13, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Southern Pacific 9758 E/B Intermodal just east of Duran, NM on the Golden State Route on December 16, 1995 with SP 8037 and another SP B39-8E. Storm clouds on the horizon with more snow later in t... (more)

Wisconsin Central train 45 heads north (westbound) through Hubertus, Wisconsin, on June 11, 1996, powered by a pair of WC’s F45s and a new Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW.

At the Nixon Power Plant. SP 6785 6840 7424 8361 unload a coal train, at a Colorado power plant. The picture really depicts how the Southern Pacific looked the last few years.

A manifest comes into West Colton Yard off the Palmdale Cutoff. Power are a pair of SD40T-2s (SP and DRGW) bookending a MK SD40M-2 rebuild. Oct 25 1995.

The hostlers pull an outbound train forward after putting the head end power on (as seen from Pepper Ave, over West Colton Yard). They will then hop on the helper unit and take up to the other end... (more)

A trio of two kind of new and one brand new eSPee AC4400CWs head towards the Wilmington Wye south of Dolores Yard. October 15 1995.

Bound for the 1992 NRHS Convention in San Jose, SP 4449 and the Daylight excursion train hits the east switch at Mt. Shasta. The GP60s had assisted the train over the Oregon Cascades the previous ... (more)