With more than enough power to accelerate its short commuter train, Southern Pacific SDP45 3208 prepares to depart San Francisco for San Jose on a spring afternoon. In passenger service SP locomot... (more)

SP 3208 painted in the SPSF merger scheme leads two more SDP45's, the 3202 and 3203 plus a SD45T-2 Eastbound on a cab hop.

I rode Southern Pacific's CASCADE to Portland . It is stopped at Eugene, OR.

With Amtrak less than a month away, SP SDP45 #3208 is ready to leave Oakland for Portland with Train #12, The Cascade.

After helping SP #4449 from Klamath Falls to Gerber the big SD was turned (it had been running long hood forward) and headed down the SP's West Valley line for the trip home to the Bay Area. The 4... (more)

Finishing its run from San Francisco is this nice looking set of equipment

Eastbound Coast Daylight is seen at College Park station

SP's Cascade getting ready to depart Oakland's 16th station and head to Portland. This station was abandoned after the 1989 earthquake. The buildings still stand but all the track is gone and a fr... (more)