UP 3985 makes a run on Sherman Hill in the days before she became a show horse. Cold winter days really accentuate steam exhaust.

A UP Challenger equipped with smoke lifters barrels down the UP mainline with a freight consisting mostly of boxcars.

A UP early Challenger speeds through Willow Island station with a long freight.

Western Pacific 2-8-8-2 number 257 is seen at Portola California in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Western Pacific 2-8-8-2 number 256 leads seventy one cars eastbound at Oroville California in 1935. Otto's speed estimate for this train was 30 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Union Pacific 2-10-2 5514 and 4-8-2 7024 lead train 818, the Los Angeles Challenger, at Caliente Nevada in 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

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

Norfolk & Western 2-8-8-2 2051 leads 174 cars eastbound near Portsmouth Ohio in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, my collection.

D&RGW 2-8-8-2 3554 is in charge of a fifty four car westbound freight near Plainview Colorado in 1943. Note the raised smoke deflector. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

An eastbound freight is emerging from the east tunnel portal on Tennessee Pass in 1931. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Union Pacific 2-8-8-0 3604 leads 61 car freight number 258 east at 12 MPH in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Norfolk & Western 2-8-8-2 number 2175 leads 120 cars west through Oakvale West Virginia in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 4-8-8-2 4141 is on the move with forty-eight car First 641 near Redding California in 1938. Otto's speed estimate on this westbound freight was 45 MPH. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Union Pacific train 717, the Los Angeles Challenger, is seen in Los Angeles at Pasadena Junction in 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP cab-forward 4135 leads 61 cars westbound at 10 MPH, after exiting a snowshed in the vicinity of Donner Pass, on August 4th 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.