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

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

St. Louis Southwestern, SSW GP40M-2 7290 leads a eastbound stack train at, Meriden, Illinois. June 14, 1993. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © History on the SSW 7290 Built as a GP40 WRA 707> SBD 6795> CSX... (more)

I shot a lot of SP trains around Galesburg in the mid-90s. One thing I didn't get leading were these Colt Belt Dash 8s. Here, a pair of them lead a westbound SP train over the ATSF Chili Sub towar... (more)

A year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a train on the Shasta Route does not display any indication of the change.

Cotton Belt 60' flat car 854668, carrying a pair of M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), was built by Greenville Steel Car in April 1969. The Cotton Belt's parent company, Southern Pacifi... (more)

Returning to Portland after overnighting in Redding, the "Shasta Daylight 1990" excursion special passes Grass Lake.

A westbound Shasta Route train approaches Bray, California on Memorial Day weekend 1994.

As has been mentioned in captions to other images of Conrail TV-556, this sought-after train typically arrived in New Jersey on Thursdays, and holidays were no exception. So, on Thanksgiving Day ... (more)

Rolling east on Southern Pacific’s West Colton Division, Cotton Belt GP35 6505 (ex-SSW 765) and SP GP9R 3880 (ex-SP GP9 3720, née-SP GP9 5884) meet a westbound, led by SP SD45T-2 9216, holding ... (more)

After switching local industries, the crew on Cotton Belt 7607 takes a dinner break in Huntington Beach.

Forty-Three Years Ago at SP's West Colton Yard Late in the afternoon, a Southern Pacific freight passes local landmark Slover Mountain as arrives at the railroad's West Colton Yar... (more)

The day after Thanksgiving 29-plus years ago (as of the date this image was posted), a group of us took a run down to "91 Bay", Conrail's locomotive service facility in Oak Island Yard t... (more)

Using trackage rights on the BN from KC-Chicago, a SP intermodal train travels east thru the outskirts of Galesburg IL.

A westbound manifest rolls through the Willamette Valley in late summer 1996. Union Pacific was four days away.