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By:Rick Morgan
Dates:1/1/1974 - 12/31/2007
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Late Afternoon on the Monterey Branch
Title:  Late Afternoon on the Monterey Branch
Description:  It's late afternoon at the end of the SP's Monterey Branch while a pair of GP9Es back past a pair of wig-wag signals to work a sand company.
Photo Date:  12/14/1985  Upload Date: 1/31/2011 5:18:23 PM
Location:  Monterey, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 3804(GP9R)
Views:  930   Comments: 1
UP GP 35 788
Title:  UP GP 35 788
Description:  UP GP36 788 at Milpitas in the East Bay in 1985. A former WP unit.
Photo Date:  12/14/1985  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 9:12:24 PM
Location:  Milpitas, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 788(GP35)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
Dragging Cars at Milpitas
Title:  Dragging Cars at Milpitas
Description:  UP 787, a former WP GP35, brings a trainload of autoracks into Milpitas in December 1985
Photo Date:  12/14/1985  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 9:12:59 PM
Location:  Milpitas, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 787(GP35)
Views:  281   Comments: 0
Crystal Amber Sands
Title:  Crystal Amber Sands
Description:  Industry at Monterey CA, December 1985, with a single SP covered hopper
Photo Date:  12/14/1985  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 9:13:22 PM
Location:  Monterey, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  140   Comments: 0
Yard Limits on the Monterey branch
Title:  Yard Limits on the Monterey branch
Description:  SP GP9 3882 leads the Monterey local into town in December 1985; 3804 trails. At one time the SP branch ran down through the Cannery Row part of the city, famed from the novel by John Steinbeck. By the time of this shot the line had been shortened to a couple of industries on the east side.
Photo Date:  12/14/1985  Upload Date: 2/28/2008 9:10:04 PM
Location:  Monterey, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 3882(GP9R)
Views:  798   Comments: 1
SP Monterey local headed west
Title:  SP Monterey local headed west
Description:  SP's Monterey local heads down the branch behind a pair of GP9s in Dec 1985.
Photo Date:  12/14/1985  Upload Date: 2/28/2008 9:10:20 PM
Location:  Seaside, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 3882(GP9R)
Views:  630   Comments: 0
Running Up Cajon
Title:  Running Up Cajon
Description:  Four UP units drag a piggy back train up Cajon Pass in 1986. SD60s 6024 bnd 6006 are assisted by SD40-2s 3327 and 3329.
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 7/18/2010 7:07:02 PM
Location:  Cajon, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 6024(SD60)
Views:  330   Comments: 3
100 Cylinders Converting Fuel to Noise
Title:  100 Cylinders Converting Fuel to Noise
Description:  Five '45s (four SD45s and an F45) run flat out as they ascend Cajon Pass from the west.
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 8/12/2010 9:49:01 PM
Location:  Cajon, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 5383(SD45u)
Views:  408   Comments: 1
Climbing Cajon
Title:  Climbing Cajon
Description:  Three Santa Fe units run a train up Cajon Pass in August 1986. C30-7 8030 is assisted by 5259 and 8742; a pair of GP35s are assisting on the rear.
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 1/15/2012 1:03:46 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 8030(C30-7)
Views:  270   Comments: 1
GP35s at the San Bernardino Shops
Title:  GP35s at the San Bernardino Shops
Description:  A pair of Santa Fe GP35s sit by the road's San Bernardino Shops in August 1986
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 1/15/2012 1:23:48 PM
Location:  San Bernardino, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 2885(GP35u) ATSF 2882(GP35u)
Views:  679   Comments: 2
Helpers
Title:  Helpers
Description:  A pair of Santa Fe GP35s help push a train up Cajon Pass
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 1/18/2008 7:06:00 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 2928(GP35u)
Views:  311   Comments: 1
Santa Fe climbing the hill
Title:  Santa Fe climbing the hill
Description:  My first trip to Cajon- and here we have six units working upgrade; there are two pushing as well.
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 1/18/2008 7:06:16 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 8043(C30-7)
Views:  430   Comments: 0
ATSF 5213
Title:  ATSF 5213
Description:  Pretty much "Generic Cajon Pass", almost a matched set of SD40-2s and F45s, other than the one (5977) in Kodachrome.
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 1/18/2008 7:06:24 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 5213(SD40-2)
Views:  605   Comments: 0
Santa Fe Local on the Escondido Branch
Title:  Santa Fe Local on the Escondido Branch
Description:  Three units bring the Santa Fe's Escondido local west towards Oceanside in 1986.
Photo Date:  9/2/1986  Upload Date: 2/5/2011 11:19:28 AM
Location:  Vista, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 2962(GP35u)
Views:  830   Comments: 2
ATSF switching
Title:  ATSF switching
Description:  Near the end of the 22 mile Escondido branch in southwest California a trio of Santa Fe Geeps work an industry.
Photo Date:  9/2/1986  Upload Date: 1/16/2008 11:01:37 PM
Location:  Escondido, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
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Views:  659   Comments: 0
ATSF 2962
Title:  ATSF 2962
Description:  The Escondido local returns to Oceanside in Sept 1986. The first unit used to work for the TP&W.
Photo Date:  9/2/1986  Upload Date: 1/18/2008 7:06:45 PM
Location:  Vista, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 2962(GP35u)
Views:  739   Comments: 0
UP switcher and slug in the LA basin
Title:  UP switcher and slug in the LA basin
Description:  UP SW1500 1318 and slug S9 sit in a yard in Los Angeles in December 1987. 1318, an ex-MP unit, was sold only a year later and became CSL 18.
Photo Date:  12/26/1987  Upload Date: 12/22/2008 11:09:43 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1318(SW1500) UP S9(Yard Slug)
Views:  4348   Comments: 1
Headed for Holtville
Title:  Headed for Holtville
Description:  A pair of SP SW1500s depart El Centro for a trip down the Holtville branch in March 1989
Photo Date:  3/17/1989  Upload Date: 8/18/2010 8:44:43 PM
Location:  El Centro, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 2621(SW1500) SP 2500(SW1500)
Views:  1000   Comments: 0
Late Afternoon on the Holtville Branch
Title:  Late Afternoon on the Holtville Branch
Description:  A pair of SP SW1500s work a short train of PFE reefers eastbound from El Centro to Holtville CA late on a March day in 1989. This is the former Holton Interurban RR; the tracks were pulled up about 1995.
Photo Date:  3/17/1989  Upload Date: 10/4/2012 7:34:37 PM
Location:  Anza, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 2547(SW1500)
Views:  253   Comments: 0
SP switchers
Title:  SP switchers
Description:  A pair of SP SW1500s idle near the El Centro depot
Photo Date:  3/17/1989  Upload Date: 1/24/2008 8:22:58 PM
Location:  El Centro, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  SP 2621(SW1500)
Views:  562   Comments: 0
Espee in the Imperial Valley
Title:  Espee in the Imperial Valley
Description:  Southern Pacific had a facility at El Centro to serve the area's bountiful agricultral traffic. GP9E 3938 sits in wait for duty along with caboose 4639 in March 1989.
Photo Date:  3/17/1989  Upload Date: 2/23/2008 11:39:54 AM
Location:  El Centro, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3738(GP9R)
Views:  438   Comments: 0
ATSF 5067 on Cajon
Title:  ATSF 5067 on Cajon
Description:  Santa Fe SD40-2 5067 brings a pig train around a curve on Cajon Pass. 8132, 7413 and 9520 trail.
Photo Date:  4/20/1989  Upload Date: 5/14/2008 6:53:54 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 5067(SD40-2)
Views:  670   Comments: 0
Five tunnel motors running uphill
Title:  Five tunnel motors running uphill
Description:  A quintet of SP tunnel motors, the first one wearing the abortive SPSF "Kodachrome" scheme, fight the laws of gravity yet again as they pull their train uphill amidst impressive rock work on Cajon Pass in April 1989.
Photo Date:  4/28/1989  Upload Date: 2/24/2008 7:24:29 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8315(SD40T-2)
Views:  520   Comments: 0
EB Santa Fe on Cajon Pass
Title:  EB Santa Fe on Cajon Pass
Description:  C30-7 8082 leads a trio of EMDs on a Santa Fe train climbing Cajon Pass in April 1989.
Photo Date:  4/29/1989  Upload Date: 7/31/2013 7:45:10 PM
Location:  Summit, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 8082(C30-7)
Views:  165   Comments: 0
Cresting Summit
Title:  Cresting Summit
Description:  An eastbound Santa Fe freight has seven units up front and two pushing at the rear as it crests Cajon Pass.
Photo Date:  4/29/1989  Upload Date: 7/31/2013 7:44:13 PM
Location:  Summit, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 5172(SD40-2)
Views:  236   Comments: 2
UP Eastbound on Cajon Pass
Title:  UP Eastbound on Cajon Pass
Description:  Three units drag a UP freight up Cajon Pass in the Spring of 1989. 922 is followed by 9258 and 3332.
Photo Date:  4/29/1989  Upload Date: 7/31/2013 7:43:34 PM
Location:  Summit, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9222(C40-8)
Views:  186   Comments: 1
SP System Helpers
Title:  SP System Helpers
Description:  A pair of helpers drift downgrade on Cajon Pass; SP SD45T-2R#6768 is back-to-back with SSW 9393.
Photo Date:  4/29/1989  Upload Date: 3/8/2016 8:25:05 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 6768(SD45T-2R)
Views:  325   Comments: 0
SP Power at Tule Lake
Title:  SP Power at Tule Lake
Description:  A pair of SP units idle on a siding at Tule Lake CA on the road's Modoc Line. SD45R 7444 is paired SD45T-2#6804, presumebly spotted here for the next southbound that needs help on its way to Wendel.
Photo Date:  4/3/1990  Upload Date: 12/26/2010 8:57:30 AM
Location:  Tulelake, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7444(SD45R)
Views:  494   Comments: 2
Coming Down the Mountain
Title:  Coming Down the Mountain
Description:  A pair of helpers on an eastbound SP freight drift by the signal at Boca CA in April 1990 as they head for Reno-Sparks. Rio Grande GP40 3079 backs up Cotton Belt SD45T-2 9394. Up front three SDs are doing most of the work now.
Photo Date:  4/15/1990  Upload Date: 11/7/2010 9:20:32 AM
Location:  Boca, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 3079(GP40)
Views:  449   Comments: 2
Downgrade Along the Truckee
Title:  Downgrade Along the Truckee
Description:  Four units bring a freight downgrade along the Truckee River towards Reno in April 1990
Photo Date:  4/15/1990  Upload Date: 8/5/2009 9:37:23 PM
Location:  Boca, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7319(SD40R)
Views:  579   Comments: 0
SP helpers
Title:  SP helpers
Description:  Two SP tunnel motor helpers drift downgrade with their train at Boca CA. Four other six-axle units arre up front. Donner Pass is behind them; Sparks NV is ahead.
Photo Date:  4/15/1990  Upload Date: 2/9/2008 7:35:25 AM
Location:  Boca, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 9344(SD45T-2) SP 6848(SD45T-2R)
Views:  496   Comments: 0
Light Power on the Modoc Line
Title:  Light Power on the Modoc Line
Description:  A pair of SP six-axle units run light southbound on the Modoc Line near Madeline CA. SD40R 7319 is acompanied by SD45R 7530 as they head for the small yard at Wendel.
Photo Date:  4/25/1990  Upload Date: 12/26/2010 8:58:43 AM
Location:  Madeline, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7319(SD40R)
Views:  830   Comments: 2
Coming down Donner
Title:  Coming down Donner
Description:  Rio Grande 5393 leads three other tunnel motors and a grain train downhil through Colfax.
Photo Date:  4/4/1993  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 8:04:34 AM
Location:  Colfax, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 5393(SD40T-2)
Views:  538   Comments: 0
Starting up Donner
Title:  Starting up Donner
Description:  It's 9:05 in the morning at Colfax as four SP units dig in for the hill to Donner Pass. SSW GP60 9690 leads.
Photo Date:  4/5/1993  Upload Date: 2/6/2008 8:34:18 PM
Location:  Colfax, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 9690(GP60)
Views:  414   Comments: 0
Waiting at Wendel
Title:  Waiting at Wendel
Description:  Three units idle at the obscure SP outpost at Wendel CA while awaiting a westbound freight to arrive, which they'll help get over the Modoc Line.
Photo Date:  4/7/1993  Upload Date: 9/28/2010 8:16:15 PM
Location:  Wendel, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SSW 6872(SD45T-2M)
Views:  597   Comments: 1
SP Crossbucks
Title:  SP Crossbucks
Description:  Southern Pacific cross bucks out in the middle of nowhere in California
Photo Date:  4/7/1993  Upload Date: 6/23/2013 10:00:06 PM
Location:  Wendel, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  91   Comments: 1
Ex-SP depot, Susanville CA
Title:  Ex-SP depot, Susanville CA
Description:  Susanville CA was at the end of an SP branch out of Wendel; by the time this shot was made the line was being operated by the Quincy RR.
Photo Date:  4/7/1993  Upload Date: 2/13/2009 10:15:25 PM
Location:  Susanville, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  186   Comments: 0
Swapping Power at Wendel
Title:  Swapping Power at Wendel
Description:  Two SP trains swap power at Wendel CA in April 1993. One train will head east to Ogden while the other will run north up the Modoc Line to Klamath Falls.
Photo Date:  4/7/1993  Upload Date: 3/19/2009 10:11:23 PM
Location:  Wendel, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 8014(B39-8E)
Views:  471   Comments: 0
EB SP Modoc line freight
Title:  EB SP Modoc line freight
Description:  An eastbound SP freight drops downgrade on the Modoc line; crew change at Wendel is about five miles ahead
Photo Date:  4/7/1993  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 8:03:50 AM
Location:  Wendel, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  239   Comments: 0
SP 8339
Title:  SP 8339
Description:  Six units bring an eastbound train into Wendel CA on the SP's Modoc Line in April of 1993. The last three units will be dropped off to help a westbound out; the others will continue east.
Photo Date:  4/7/1993  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 8:03:59 AM
Location:  Wendel, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8339(SD40T-2)
Views:  454   Comments: 1
Waiting at Wendel
Title:  Waiting at Wendel
Description:  Rio Grande 5361 sits with two other tunnel motors on the Modoc Line at Wendel, NV. They're waiting for an EB train that will give them three more units prior heading towards Alturas and Klamath Falls. Wendel is one of those truly obscure places that only raifans seem to seek out.
Photo Date:  4/7/1993  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 8:04:42 AM
Location:  Wendel, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 5361(SD40T-2)
Views:  781   Comments: 0
Quincy RR
Title:  Quincy RR
Description:  Sierra Pacific's Quincy RR operated the former SP Susanville line for several years; here ex SP TR6A 1100 runs to the interchange in Wendel with eleven cars of lumber. This line reportedly shut down in 2004.
Photo Date:  4/8/1993  Upload Date: 1/21/2008 8:31:46 PM
Location:  Litchfield, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  QRR 1100(TR6A)
Views:  768   Comments: 0
UP on the Loop
Title:  UP on the Loop
Description:  Three units bring a UP train uphill at Walong as they run Tehachapi Loop in 2000
Photo Date:  8/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/17/2011 11:06:02 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9389(C40-8W)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
Mid-Train helpers at Tehachapi
Title:  Mid-Train helpers at Tehachapi
Description:  Three GEs act as mid-train helpers for an eastbound train at the Loop in 2000 while another railfan looks on.
Photo Date:  8/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/17/2011 11:06:18 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9400(C40-8W)
Views:  358   Comments: 0
Ten Units at Walong
Title:  Ten Units at Walong
Description:  A southbound BNSF freight comes off the Tehachipi Loop with ten units up front. Power is a mix of GE C40/44s and EMD SD40-2s: ATSF 652, 668, BNSF 6347, 6921, 796, 4352, 5466, CSX 7744, BN 7231, BNSF 6289.
Photo Date:  8/26/2000  Upload Date: 6/21/2013 9:21:31 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  73   Comments: 0
Doing the Loop in 2000
Title:  Doing the Loop in 2000
Description:  Five units bring a BNSF train around Tehachapi Loop late in the afternoon of 26 August 2000.
Photo Date:  8/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/3/2009 8:43:06 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 739(C44-9W)
Views:  556   Comments: 0
Four GEs do the Loop
Title:  Four GEs do the Loop
Description:  Four big GEs lead an EB train around fabled Tehachapi Loop in August 2000.
Photo Date:  8/26/2000  Upload Date: 1/20/2008 9:50:11 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8138(C44-9W)
Views:  1004   Comments: 0
SP Power at Mojave
Title:  SP Power at Mojave
Description:  Southern Pacific was merged into the UP in 1998; two years later five SP units prepare to move out of Mojave CA. SD40R 7326 leads SD45T-2 6803, SD45Rs 7459, 7415 and SD40R 7304. Time is nigh for these Espee warriors; none of these units would last on the UP roster past 2002.
Photo Date:  8/27/2000  Upload Date: 10/25/2008 12:09:30 PM
Location:  Mojave, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7326(SD40R)
Views:  575   Comments: 1
Pushers at the Loop
Title:  Pushers at the Loop
Description:  Two GEs add their effort to a westbound grain train working Tehachipi in August 2000
Photo Date:  8/27/2000  Upload Date: 6/9/2013 8:19:56 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4468(C44-9W)
Views:  295   Comments: 0
Around Tehachipi Loop
Title:  Around Tehachipi Loop
Description:  BNSF 4384 leads a train down grade around Tehachipi Loop. This one has three units up front and two pushing at the rear.
Photo Date:  8/27/2000  Upload Date: 6/21/2013 9:21:10 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4384(C44-9W)
Views:  267   Comments: 0


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